[Gllug] Changing the text colour at the command line

[Nix]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tethys uttered the following:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
>>On xterm, \033[0;39m should do the trick as well; that's `restore to
>>default', rather than changing to any specific colour.
>>
>>(That should be `CSI [0;39m', of course... ;} )
> 
> 	tput op sgr0
> 
> will do this in a terminal independent way.

Bit tough if you're trying to convince e.g. GNU grep's --color option to
do it; it unconditionally emits CSI[00m... (I've submitted a patch to
generalise it of course).

I hate broken terminal emulators.

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