Burke Libbey personal blog
ANSI escape codes (2019)
My team writes a lot of command line tools, and we like to assume that people aren’t using a literal VT100 (meaning: we liberally use colours, italics, and basically every other terminal feature available to us). This tends to result in strings in our code that look a little like this:
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Tools & ProductivityNetworking & Internet2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2021 | ANSI escape codes (2019) by brendanfalk | 145 | 82 |
