Supported ANSI escapes - authoritative list

[parkovski]

I wrote ANSI escape handling for PSReadLine on Windows and it involved a good amount of showkey -a. Currently adding ^[[Z because I know that’s supported now, but I’m not sure if there have been any other changes. Can we either get updated docs with all supported escapes or a terminfo page?

[zadjii-msft]

Are we talking about as input to a client, or as output from a client application?

There is This MSDN page, but I don't know if I've updated it since Creator's Update.

I can add a backlog item to myself to update that page. We're pretty quickly building up a documentation backlog (cough @bitcrazed )

[parkovski]

For the purpose of PSReadLine, input is all that matters (what escape does it generate for a given key?), but I imagine other people would be interested in the rest, especially with upcoming PTY support.

I think the main things the list left out were around which keys supported Alt/Shift and their sequences (the F keys, PgUp, etc, but not Delete, for example), can't remember if there was anything else.

[miniksa]

Now that the code is opened, I would love to have someone help us update the documentation here.

If someone can help update the documentation and build a beautiful table of what we support based on reading the VT parser/adapter libraries, I can provide assistance by spelunking the history that you all cannot see to find when each sequence showed up as being supported.

[oising]

I was talking with @Jaykul about this the other day -- building a nice excel style table of support ops. Assign to me and I'll take a crack at it this weekend (I'm nearly done the other issue for install doc - its been a long week for me) -- I need a good excuse to spelunk into the parser, and this sounds like a great starter.

[zadjii-msft]

Hey so this has been open for some time now. I think we made this a lot better with #1884. We're tracking further updates to these docs in MicrosoftDocs/terminal#350, MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs#91 and MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs#243. (some of those should also be de-duped)

Thanks all!