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How do I format text with ANSI escaping?
Like make things italic or bold and maybe strikethrough and super script.
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To make text bold, select and highlight the text first. Then hold down Ctrl (the control key) on the keyboard and press B on the keyboard. To make text italic, select and highlight the text first. Then hold down Ctrl (the control key) on the keyboard and then press the I on the keyboard.
ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an ASCII escape character and a bracket character, are embedded into text.
The shortcut key to make text italic is Ctrl + I on the PC and Chromebook or Command + I on the Mac. To make text italic using a keyboard shortcut, highlight the text and then press the shortcut key.
Bold: Use ESC[1m
Italic, Strike-through and Superscript are not supported.
Some terminals support additional sequences. For example in a Gnome Terminal you can use:
echo -e "\e[1mbold\e[0m" echo -e "\e[3mitalic\e[0m" echo -e "\e[4munderline\e[0m" echo -e "\e[9mstrikethrough\e[0m" echo -e "\e[31mHello World\e[0m" echo -e "\x1B[31mHello World\e[0m"
Source How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, color, background, and size in Gnome Terminal?, answer by Sylvain Pineau
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