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Grex Test Item 74: ANSI HELP! [linked]
Entered by ziggy on Mon Feb 28 00:07:11 UTC 1994:

Can someone give me some help with ansi?

73 responses total.

#1 of 73 by jasmine on Mon Feb 28 05:42:21 1994:

WHat do you want to know?

#2 of 73 by ziggy on Wed Mar 2 21:52:31 1994:

Everything!

#3 of 73 by ziggy on Wed Mar 2 21:53:07 1994:

everything!

#4 of 73 by popcorn on Thu Mar 3 22:19:45 1994:

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#5 of 73 by popcorn on Thu Mar 3 22:20:34 1994:

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#6 of 73 by davel on Thu Mar 3 23:13:17 1994:

Whatever you did, Ziggy, it just came across here (VT100 emulation) as
[1m ZIGG-O-RAMA[0m.  I kind of think that the escapes got lost.  How
did you try to insert them in your name?

#7 of 73 by jasmine on Sat Mar 5 06:31:18 1994:

LIke you really should just join an ansi conference or something like that.

#8 of 73 by cain on Sat Mar 5 18:39:43 1994:

ANSI conference?  What is the point?  I always thought that whatever
you needed to know about ANSI could be taught to you on your own
machine.

#9 of 73 by jared on Sun Mar 13 00:37:44 1994:

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#10 of 73 by jared on Sun Mar 13 00:39:59 1994:

^[[1;43mTest^[[0m

#11 of 73 by jared on Sun Mar 13 00:40:50 1994:

That's better.. I forgot one thing.
I'm censoring that response because I know at least meg gets screwed up
with ansi in responses, so if you want to see it, here's how to do it.
set noforget
only 10
set forget

#12 of 73 by jared on Sun Mar 13 00:41:52 1994:

Hmm, GREX doesn't have censor, only scribble.. sorry, meg.

#13 of 73 by nestene on Sun Mar 13 01:05:21 1994:

Looks white-on-green to me; was that what you wanted?

#14 of 73 by davel on Sun Mar 13 01:09:31 1994:

white on red to me.  Jared, you seem to have scribbled 9, not 10.

#15 of 73 by carson on Sun Mar 13 07:06:22 1994:

re #10: it depends on your term emulator and computer.

um, jared, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to refer to the test items?

#16 of 73 by remmers on Sun Mar 13 10:31:17 1994:

#10 contains an ansi control sequence for color.  However, since I'm
using a terminal emulator that doesn't do color, it just looks boldface
to me.

To see the control characters in a response, you can "define pager see".

#17 of 73 by popcorn on Sun Mar 13 13:53:15 1994:

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#18 of 73 by jared on Tue Mar 22 16:26:45 1994:

can you add the following line to the rc file? (global that is)
define scri_bble  xxx expurgate

where xxx is the code number for something that can be done at the
rfp prompt?

#19 of 73 by popcorn on Tue Mar 22 19:33:40 1994:

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#20 of 73 by polaris on Wed Mar 23 01:47:41 1994:

[1m is this working? [0m

#21 of 73 by kami on Wed Mar 23 04:39:20 1994:

well- polaris, did you have something to say?

#22 of 73 by davel on Wed Mar 23 11:04:15 1994:

I think the answer is "no", to both of you.
Try JOIN TEST to play with these things to your heart's content without
bothering everyone else, OK?

#23 of 73 by remmers on Wed Mar 23 12:30:37 1994:

(Uh, this item *is* in test.)

#24 of 73 by popcorn on Wed Mar 23 13:31:22 1994:

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#25 of 73 by davel on Wed Mar 23 21:48:39 1994:

My profound apologies.  I think I was the one who said it should be there.
Ahem.  I will *try* not to let it happen again. <slinks off with tail
between legs>

#26 of 73 by vishnu on Tue Mar 29 20:13:33 1994:

um.. [36m[45mHmm?[0m
Ahh.. you can't really enter ansi in a response, can you.
it strips bad input of the ESc's.

#27 of 73 by vidar on Tue Mar 29 20:49:51 1994:

Uff Da?

#28 of 73 by davel on Tue Mar 29 23:29:27 1994:

Use vi or some other tool.
(In vi, control-V followed by escape will put in an escape, assuming you're
in a text-entry mode.)

<davel wonders why he's telling people how to mess up his screen>

#29 of 73 by srw on Wed Mar 30 01:49:13 1994:

Yeah, don't do that.

#30 of 73 by tsty on Thu Mar 31 09:51:00 1994:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

#31 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 13:09:29 1994:

^[1mthis is a test^[0m
.

#32 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 13:10:15 1994:

didn't work
ansi dont work in !cat, i guess

#33 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 13:12:13 1994:

Incomplete termcap entry

^[1m this is a test^[0m
^[1m this is another test^[om
^[1m have any of these worked yet? ^[0m
no, they haven't
must not work in bbsed either

#34 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 13:19:05 1994:

^[1mthis is a test^[0m
^[36m^[45mi think this is working!^[0m
m
nope, 'tisnt.
how do you get ANSI to work--which editor does it work in.
any special rules for it?
1mJust cheking one thing0m
nope, didn't work
but this[D[D[D[Dthis does
 oh, that doesn't work either
too bad

#35 of 73 by davel on Mon May 16 13:47:39 1994:

Try doing a
set nostrip
first, orinoco.  That may let you do what you're trying to do.

#36 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 19:06:19 1994:

^[1mThank you^[0m
still didn't work!
^[1mdoes this work^[0m
 ^[1m does this? ^[0m
well, just tell me how to do it, someone.  I'm using ^v-esc-1-m
I've also tried esc-1-m, but somebody told me to use ^v first
I am using a vt100 emulation program,if that's any help
 ^[1m one last try ^[0m
 ^[1m 'nother last try ^[0m
 well, 'tisnt working.  hmm...

#37 of 73 by orinoco on Mon May 16 19:32:44 1994:

never mind, i got it to work
                        ^[[1mALL^[[0m
                        ^[[1mBY^[[0m
                        ^[[1mMYSELF^[[0m
Aren't you proud of me?
"p

#38 of 73 by davel on Tue May 17 01:55:49 1994:

Now, are you going to say *how*?

#39 of 73 by rcurl on Tue May 17 06:15:41 1994:

This is a test. Did it work?