ghostty/docs/sequences.md

Control and Escape Sequences

⚠️ This is super out of date. Ghostty's support is much better than this document seems. TODO to update this. ⚠️

This is the list of control and escape sequences known in the ecosystem of terminal emulators and their implementation status in ghostty. Note that some control sequences may never be implemented in ghostty. In these scenarios, it is noted why.

Status meanings:

• ✅ - Implementation is complete and considered 100% accurate.
• ⚠️ - Implementation works, but may be missing some functionality. The details of how well it works or doesn't are in the linked page. In many cases, the missing functionality is very specific or esoteric. Regardless, we don't consider a sequence a green checkmark until all known feature interactions are complete.
• ❌ - Implementation is effectively non-functional, but ghostty continues in the face of it (probably in some broken state).
• 💥 - Ghostty crashes if this control sequence is sent.

ID	ASCII	Name	Status
ENQ	0x05	Enquiry	✅
BEL	0x07	Bell	❌
BS	0x08	Backspace	⚠️
TAB	0x09	Tab	⚠️
LF	0x0A	Linefeed	⚠️
VT	0x0B	Vertical Tab	✅
FF	0x0C	Form Feed	✅
CR	0x0D	Carriage Return	⚠️
SO	0x0E	Shift Out	❌
SI	0x0F	Shift In	❌
CAN	0x18	Cancel Parsing	✅
SUB	0x1A	Cancel Parsing (Alias)	✅
IND	ESC D	Index	✅
NEL	ESC E	Next Line	✅
HTS	ESC H	Horizontal Tab Set	✅
RI	ESC M	Reverse Index	⚠️
SS2	ESC N	Single Shift 2	❌
SS3	ESC O	Single Shift 3	❌
SPA	ESC V	Start Protected Area	❌
EPA	ESC W	End Protected Area	❌