Re: Highlighting CLI output: what are these terms called?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Chris Davies <chris@roaima.co.uk> wrote:
> These escape sequences do not need to be embedded into your programs;
> they can be derived in a terminal-independent manner. See "man 5 terminfo"
> for gory details.
>
> Here's an example that will display "world" in standout - but only on
> suitably capable terminals:
>
>     echo "Hello" $(tput smso)"world"$(tput rmso) "as you can see."
>

Thank you, that is interesting.

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