Hi! On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:48:05PM -0300, Leonardo Boiko wrote: > I often find myself wanting a quick reference for ANSI color escapes, > in the same spirit as ascii(7), units(7), or operator(7). So I went > ahead and wrote one. (I'm aware this information is available in > console_codes(4), but I wanted something simpler and more to the > point). I don't know if this is a good idea or just useless bloat, > and I have no prior experience with troff, but if you guys think it's > acceptable, feel free to include it. > > The file is available at http://namakajiri.net/code/ansicolors.7 ; if > you think it's ok, I'll send it to mtk.manpages like the webpage says. my first reaction was also that this is redundant to console_codes(4), but after some thought, I think I do like the idea of having quick reference just for the basic text attributes. Couple of points: * I think web references are mostly avoided and not relevant or necessary here. All of them talk about escape sequences in general, so they belong to console_codes(4) if anywhere, but in fact the wikipedia article should be trivially found using a search engine with this subject and the all-escapes.txt URL looks way too transient. However, it would make sense to add CONFORMING TO section to the manpage with the ECMA reference (but probably not the URL). * Generally, AUTHOR section is not used for the common manpages. * I would move the 'Compatibility notes' subsection to the more traditional NOTES section, and drop the custom-typeset bulletpoint list. * It is also worth noting that blinking is commonly unimplemented, with popular alternate implementations being rendering background in bright color or showing the text in bold. * console_codes(4) needs to be adjusted appropriately for this new manpage at several places, but I think that can be done later. * After "There are several commands to control cursor position, clear the screen etc.", I would add "See .BR console_codes (4) for detailed list of all commands." and break the paragraph there. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
