On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 davidson wrote:
The "colors" are control sequences, instructions for terminal emulators conforming to a standard. Terminals understand them to mean "now paint glyphs red" or "now make them bold" or "now stop doing all that fancy stuff" etc.
Erm, what I meant to say is that the instructions are for conforming terminals. And a terminal *emulator* knows what they mean, because it is an emulator of terminals. -- Hackers are free people. They are like artists. If they are in a good mood, they get up in the morning and begin painting their pictures. -- Vladimir Putin