Questions tagged [escape-sequences]
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How do I send the 'setMark' escape code in Windows Terminal or iTerm2?
Windows Terminal now supports setMark which originally came from iTerm2.
How do I add a mark (non interactively, ie so I can use this in my $PS1)? The docs have a screenshot of the relevant text ...
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How to create a consecutive between 2 number in excel
For example, I have 33 in cell A1, and 40 in cell B1, I want a formula in cell C1, to write an arithmetic sequence from 33 to 40 like this: 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
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Ctrl-V in TTY not escaping Ctrl-C
For the record, this has nothing to do with copying and pasting, which is likely why it's so difficult to find an answer.
I am attempting to insert a literal CTRL-C character into a stream from a TTY. ...
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bash: Dynamic colorful prompt
I give my git colorful prompt but it never fully works. After so many trails I've pinned point where the problem is (completely stripped git out of the problem). Here it is, manifesting the symptom as ...
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What are these escape codes/sequences?
Searching Excel with no luck for text sequences that I knew where there was driving me insane. I was copy-pasting search terms from a website Digi-Key (digi-key.com) and searching for them in an Excel ...
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How Do I Paste A Path Into Netbeans With Proper Formatting?
every time I past a file's path into Netbeans (for example, C:\programs\test.txt) I always have to add in the escape characters so that Netbeans understand the path.
So, I will paste
"C:\programs\...
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Slack Popups have started containing escape sequences
My Windows 'pop-ups' when I receive a slack message have started (maybe in the last few days / weeks?) to have escape characters in them. e.g. '
When I view the message in Slack (web, or ...
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Terminal escape sequences in GNU Screen
So I'm quite confused with the concept of escape sequences in a terminal (or terminal emulator to be more precise) and how they relate to the screen bindkey command. I was looking at some sample ....
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Tools for converting 8-bit C1 control characters to ESC sequences?
The ECMA-48 ("ANSI escape sequences") standard describe two ways of encoding the C1 set of control codes: using 2 character ESC sequences, or alternatively, using 8-bit control characters.
Wikipedia ...
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How can I substitute a quote in bash script
I have this bash script
#!/bin/bash
find . -type f > /home/wschrabi/filenames
while read filename; do
stripped="$(printf '%s\n' "$filename" | tr -d -C '[[:alnum:]][[:space:]][!\"\#\$\%\&...
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Using PCL3e escape sequences on an HP Officejet Pro 8630 to duplex on the long edge
I'm trying to print raw, plain ASCII text (e.g. IETF RFCs, which contain form-feed characters for automatic pagination) by sending it directly to port 9100 on my HP Officejet Pro 8630. The ...
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Script SSH Interactive Console that needs escaped chars
I would like to modify my existing SSH connection via a shell script. So if I run an existing script remotely I would like it to open a new port to be tunnelled.
Interactively I can do this via:
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Switch bold font in Urxvt at runtime
As seen in the man page, one can switch the font in Urxvt using:
printf '\33]50;%s\007' "xft:Terminus:pixelsize=20"
However, having the following line in ~/.Xdefaults will cause bold fonts to not ...
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MobaXterm backspace sends ^H
Long question:
I'm trying to test my simple HTTP Server by Telnet-ing alot of requests and seeing how the server reacts. But when i make a typo and press Backspace to erase the previous character, ...
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VTE Escapes Sequences
I'm investigating a problem where messages like
]777;notify;Command completed;uname⏎
show up in Terminal after executing uname. This is not limited to uname, this is only an example. I boiled it ...
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