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Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/agetty.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | term-utils/agetty.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8 index bb2feea39..02bf21925 100644 --- a/term-utils/agetty.8 +++ b/term-utils/agetty.8 @@ -333,8 +333,13 @@ Insert the baudrate of the current line. d Insert the current date. .TP -e -Insert \\033 to handle esc sequences, for example "\\e[31m RED \\e[0m" prints red text. +e or e{name} +Translate the human readable \fIname\fP to esc sequence and insert the sequence +(e.g. \\e{red}Alert text.\\e{reset}). If the name argument is not specified then +insert \\033. The currently supported names are: black, blink, blue, bold, brown, cyan, +darkgray, gray, green, halfbright, lightblue, lightcyan, lightgray, lightgreen, +lightmagenta, lightred, magenta, red, reset, reverse, and yellow. All unknown +names are silently ignored. .TP s Insert the system name, the name of the operating system. Same as `uname \-s'. |