fix(shared): underline styles and colours no longer scramble command output colours by MarcoDotIO · Pull Request #21542 · pingdotgg/t3code

MarcoDotIO · 2026-10-19T06:10:35Z

Problem

The command-output tail (web timeline and mobile thread) mangles colours and styles when a command uses extended underline codes. With ESC[1;31m (bold red) in force:

ESC[4:3m (curly underline) also turns the text italic.
ESC[4:0m (underline off) wipes the bold and the red.
ESC[58;2;255;0;0m (underline colour) resets the pen to default.

On its own, ESC[58;5;31m turns text red, and ESC[4m followed by ESC[58:2::255:0:0m loses the underline. Expected: the other attributes stay as they were, and underline colour is ignored because the renderer doesn't draw it.

Change

Two small changes in packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts:

csiParams handled colon sub-parameters correctly only for 38/48. For any other code it pushed each sub-parameter as its own SGR code, so 4:3 became 4;3 and 4:0 became 4;0. Now a colon group whose head isn't 38/48/58 keeps only its head. 4:0 maps to 24 (underline off).
applySgr now treats 58 like 38/48: it consumes the 5;n / 2;r;g;b values but doesn't store them. The colon form 58:2::r:g:b drops the empty colour-space id the same way 38:2 already did.

The server (CommandOutputHub) and clients (client-runtime commandOutput) share this parser, so this one change fixes web, desktop and mobile.

Scope and approval

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so it doesn't need a prior issue. The parser already handled the colon and extended-colour forms for 38/48. Other SGR codes with sub-parameters, and 58, fell through to the generic path and were misread as unrelated codes. The fix changes 2 functions in one file (+11/-3) and adds no new attributes or rendering. It doesn't change any contract, setting or UI.

Verification

Added a table-driven test in packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts for the five inputs above. Each case checks the resulting spans from terminalOutputSpans. It also checks that splitting the input into two chunks at every position gives the same text as parsing it in one piece.

Without the source fix (git stash push -- packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts):

$ node_modules/.bin/vp test run packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts
     × reads a curly underline without disturbing the other attributes
     × reads underline off in colon form without disturbing the other attributes
     × reads a true-colour underline colour without disturbing the other attributes
     × reads a 256-colour underline colour without disturbing the other attributes
     × reads a colon-form underline colour without disturbing the other attributes
 Test Files  1 failed (1)
      Tests  5 failed | 29 passed (34)

With the fix:

$ node_modules/.bin/vp test run packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts
 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  34 passed (34)

$ node_modules/.bin/vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandOutputHub.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/state/commandOutput.test.ts
 Test Files  2 passed (2)
      Tests  13 passed (13)

Other checks:

node_modules/.bin/vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives packages/shared/src: exit 0, no warnings in the changed files.
node_modules/.bin/vp fmt --check packages/shared/src: exit 0.
cd packages/shared && ../../node_modules/.bin/tsc-rs --noEmit: exit 0.

Not checked: I didn't look at this in a running web or mobile client. The change is in shared parsing that the unit tests above cover, and it has no visual changes beyond showing the correct attributes.

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…output colours The command-output parser flattened colon sub-parameters for every SGR code except 38/48, so `4:3` (curly underline) also set italic and `4:0` (underline off) reset the whole pen. It also didn't treat 58 (underline colour) as an extended colour, so its `5;n` / `2;r;g;b` values were read as ordinary codes. Keep only the head of other colon groups (mapping `4:0` to 24), and consume 58's colour values like 38/48 without storing them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

macroscopeapp · 2026-10-19T06:12:32Z

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Verdict: Approved at 9fec45e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, self-contained fix in the shared terminal-output parser, with targeted tests and no changes to schemas, defaults, deployment, or security-sensitive code. Its runtime effect is limited to preventing underline escape sequences from corrupting existing command-output colours and styles.

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SGR parsing now consumes extended colour parameters for codes 38, 48, and 58. It stores foreground and background colours, but discards underline colour. Colon-form parameters handle style variants and limit colour fields to the selected mode. Tests cover styling and output across input splits.

Changes: Terminal output parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SGR parsing and validation `packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts`, `packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts`	The parser consumes extended colour parameters, discards underline colour, maps `4:0` to underline-off, and limits colour fields to the selected mode. Tests check expected styles and confirm normalized text is unchanged across character-boundary splits.

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Change: Bug fix

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observed — packages/shared (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

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observed — Modified behavior in packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts: Added parameterized tests verifying ANSI underline and colour sequences produce the expected spans, ignore unsupported or malformed colour forms, preserve existing styles, and yield identical normalized text when split at any input position.
observed — Modified behavior in packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts: SGR handling now recognizes code 58, consumes its extended-colour parameters, and discards the underline colour instead of storing it as a renderable style; foreground and background extended colours retain their previous assignments.
observed — Modified behavior in packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts: Colon-form SGR parsing now normalizes non-colour sub-parameters, maps 4:0 to reset code 24, removes the colour-space field for RGB modes 38, 48, and 58, and limits expanded fields to each mode’s required length instead of emitting all sub-parameters.

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Upstream pruned the neighbouring colon-form colour test (pingdotgg#22557); keep that deletion and this branch's underline cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Consume the colour-space field for colon-form indexed underline… · terminalOutput.ts:315-325

packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts:315-325
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Consume the colour-space field for colon-form indexed underline colours.

58:5:0:31 currently remains [58, 5, 0, 31]. extendedColor consumes [58, 5, 0], then applySgr processes the leftover 31 as foreground red. This changes the rendered text colour. Remove the colour-space field for mode 5, as the parser already does for mode 2. Add a regression case for this form; the added tests cover semicolon indexed colour and colon RGB colour, but not colon indexed colour-space input.
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-    if (sub[1] === 2 && sub.length >= 6) sub.splice(2, 1);
+    if (
+      (sub[1] === 2 && sub.length >= 6) ||
+      (sub[1] === 5 && sub.length >= 4)
+    ) sub.splice(2, 1);
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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts around lines 315 - 325:
Update the SGR parameter normalization in the relevant parser so colon-form
indexed colour mode 5 consumes its colour-space field, matching the existing
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…R codes `58:5:0:32` applied the stray `32` as a green foreground. A colon group is a single parameter, so it now keeps only the fields its colour mode uses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

MarcoDotIO · 2026-10-21T00:31:43Z

Re the outside-diff note on terminalOutput.ts:315-325: the leak was real, but I fixed it differently in 35b0f0a. The suggested patch would strip sub[2] as a colour-space id. In ITU T.416, indexed colour is 58:5:<index>, and only the :2: RGB form carries a colour-space id, so 58:5:0:31 would be read as index 31. Instead, a colon group now keeps only the fields its mode uses (3 for :5:, 5 for :2: after the id is dropped) and discards the rest. Stray fields no longer reach applySgr. Added regressions: 58:5:0:32 (previously turned text green) and 38:5:1:4 (previously added an underline).

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Expanded the real provider command in the timeline. Main reproduces all seven regressions: 4:3 adds italic; 4:0 drops bold/red; 58;2 resets bold/red; 58;5;31 leaks red; 58:2::255:0:0 drops underline; 58:5:0:32 leaks green; 38:5:1:4 leaks underline. The PR renders all seven correctly in light and dark themes. Checked rendered spans as well as screenshots. True-colour foreground, indexed background, ordinary italic/underline and selective resets still work. Collapsing/reopening the output and reloading/restarting the PR server preserve the result.

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web composer -> Codex gpt-6.1-sol -> shell printf -> command-output timeline
main: real provider completed in 11.3s; seven incorrect styled rows
PR: real provider completed in 9.2s; all seven rows correct
neighbor rows: RGB foreground green; indexed background blue;
               italic + underline; selective reset returns normal text
blacksmith: vp test run packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts
  apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandOutputHub.test.ts
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