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Are ASCII escape sequences and control characters parings part of a standard?


There are common pairings of escape sequences to ASCII control characters, such as Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z to ETX and SUB, respectively.

On the Wikipedia Control Codes page, there are most pairings, but no cited reference.

Are the control character and key sequence pairings part of a standard?

Where is that listed for Linux and other OS's?

Are there man pages listing these pairings?

References


Solution

  • I wrote a document in 1984 that summarizes ANSI Codes X3.64-1979, ANSI X3.4-1977, and ANSI X3.41-1974. This ansicode.txt describes how the control codes affect DEC LA-series hardcopy terminals and the VT-series video terminals.