Xterm Escape Sequences

 Xterm Escape Sequences

SecureCRT supports many standard escape sequences. The following is a list of the xterm sequences supported by SecureCRT.

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Example Script: Changing the Window Title

SecureCRT supports the xterm escape sequence for changing the session A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts. window title bar on the fly. The Perl script below shows how this can be done:

#! /usr/local/bin/perl

# title.pl - sends xterm escape sequence to

# change window title to @ARGV

$esc = "\x1b";

$bel = "\x7";

$txt = join(" ", @ARGV);

print $esc, "]2;", $txt, $bel;

This script can be placed in a shell alias to display the current working folder in the title bar of the session window:

alias cd 'cd \!\!* ; prompt ; ~/bin/title.pl $host\: `pwd` '

256-Color Extension Support

SecureCRT supports the 256-color extensions introduced for xterm versions that need to support more than 16 colors. For 256-color xterm escape sequences to work, you must have the ANSI Color option enabled in the Terminal/Emulation category of the Session Options dialog.

The general form of the 256-color escape sequences is as follows.

To set foreground color:

ESC [ 38 ; 5 ; <color> m

CSI 38 ; 5 ; <color> m

To set background color:

ESC [ 48 ; 5 ; <color> m

CSI 48 ; 5 ; <color> m

The following Perl script demonstrates using these sequences to lay out a "color cube" with a colored "X" in each color cell:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

$ESC="\x1b";

$CSI="${ESC}\[";

for ($green=0;$green<6;$green++)

{

     for ($red=0;$red<6;$red++)

     {

         for ($blue=0;$blue<6;$blue++)

         {

             $bgcolor=16+($red*36)+($green*6)+$blue;

             $fgcolor=16-$red-$green-$blue;

             print "${CSI}48;5;${bgcolor}m";

             print "${CSI}38;5;${fgcolor}mX";

         }

         print "${CSI}0m";

         }

     print "\n";

}

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