terminal-escape-codes.md

Terminal emulator escape codes

Existing escape code lists and extensions:

• iTerm2 list, with some extended escape codes
• hterm list
• Kitty list
• Changing cursor shape
• Superscript/subscript

Text with ANSI colors

• list
• Determining whether the background is light or dark (ex, ex)

Hyperlinks

• overview in various emulators

Images

• terminal-wg issue
• iTerm2: OSC 1337. only iTerm2 currently. Maybe others (xterm.js etc) will follow. documentation
• Kitty: Terminal graphics protocol. (Issue with discussions.)
• mintty: image-support
• xterm.js issue
• IPython issue
• neofetch source code (see display_image)

Sixel

From modern and widely used terminal emulators, only Xterm supports it.

• Wikipedia
• libsixel
• Gnome issue
• Konsole issue

Current directory information

• iTerm2

Text folding

• StackOverflow question
• xterm.js feature request
• terminal-wg issue

Desktop notification

• terminal-wg issue

Generic HTML

No standard at all. Some HTML terminal emulators support this.

• DomTerm (article, article)
• GraphTerm
• GateOne