fix(shared): underline styles and colours no longer scramble command output colours#21542

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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):

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

With the fix:

1$ node_modules/.bin/vp test run packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts
2 Test Files 1 passed (1)
3 Tests 34 passed (34)
4
5$ node_modules/.bin/vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandOutputHub.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/state/commandOutput.test.ts
6 Test Files 2 passed (2)
7 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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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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Walkthrough

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.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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The inspected colour and streaming cases behave as intended. No merge-blocking issue was identified.

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Changed systems: packages/shared

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Before / after behavior

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

packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.ts:315-325 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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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1- if (sub[1] === 2 && sub.length >= 6) sub.splice(2, 1);
2+ if (
3+ (sub[1] === 2 && sub.length >= 6) ||
4+ (sub[1] === 5 && sub.length >= 4)
5+ ) sub.splice(2, 1);
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7Update the SGR parameter normalization in the relevant parser so colon-form
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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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Verified as-is at 35b0f0a576b579d0ab5a2a72a454afc1601a62bb on a Linux Boat VM. Read the description, discussion, reviews and diff; the PR is open and none of its three commits is by juliusmarminge or t3dotgg. GitCafe mirror: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/21542.

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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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1web composer -> Codex gpt-6.1-sol -> shell printf -> command-output timeline
2main: real provider completed in 11.3s; seven incorrect styled rows
3PR: real provider completed in 9.2s; all seven rows correct
4neighbor rows: RGB foreground green; indexed background blue;
5 italic + underline; selective reset returns normal text
6blacksmith: vp test run packages/shared/src/terminalOutput.test.ts
7 apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CommandOutputHub.test.ts
8 packages/client-runtime/src/state/commandOutput.test.ts
93 files passed, 32 tests passed

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before: main corrupts underline-related colours and styles

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after: dark theme preserves the same output

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……@@ -283,8 +284,17 @@ function csiParams(params: string): Array<number> {
288+ if (head !== 38 && head !== 48 && head !== 58) {
289+ // Other sub-parameters pick a style variant (`4:3` curly underline); keep
290+ // only the head, except that `4:0` turns underline off.
291+ numbers.push(head === 4 && sub[1] === 0 ? 24 : head);
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Preserve mixed-separator color sequences.

For \x1b[38;2:255:0:0m, this branch drops the RGB values, so the foreground color is not applied. The previous parser accepted this form, which xterm supports. (github.com)

Preserve color subparameters when they follow a semicolon-form color code. Add a regression case for this form and for a following SGR attribute.

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✅ Addressed in commit a6cf32e

Fixed in a6cf32ed1d: after a semicolon-form 38/48/58 the parser now reads the mode part, so 38;2:255:0:0 and 38;5:1 keep their colour fields, and it skips the colour values that follow so a value is never read as a code. I added regression cases for both forms with a following attribute.

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@MarcoDotIO The supplied csiParams implementation preserves the colour fields in both 38;2:255:0:0 and 38;5:1. It also keeps following SGR attributes separate from colour values. This addresses the reported regression.


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