# [PATCH] gitweb: Escape ESCAPE (\e) character

1 messages from 2006-10-02 to 2006-10-02. Participants: Luben Tuikov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5789

## Luben Tuikov, 2006-10-02 21:54

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Escape ESCAPE (\e) character
Message-ID: <20061002215453.45092.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061002215453.45092.qmail%40web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com

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Take a look at commit 20a3847d8a5032ce41f90dcc68abfb36e6fee9b1
using gitweb before this patch.  This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
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 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 10e803a..a9e95c9 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ sub esc_html {
 	$str = decode("utf8", $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
 	$str = escapeHTML($str);
 	$str =~ s/\014/^L/g; # escape FORM FEED (FF) character (e.g. in COPYING file)
+	$str =~ s/\033/^[/g; # "escape" ESCAPE (\e) character (e.g. commit 20a3847d8a5032ce41f90dcc68abfb36e6fee9b1)
 	return $str;
 }
 
-- 
1.4.2.3.gc269

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