On 25/04/2016 16:37, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de > <mailto:jo...@bec.de>> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:22:54PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: > > Yes, colorization is commonly-request feature, but is also not trivial > to > > do portably, which is probably why relatively few people are interested > in > > implementing it. > > Uses terminfo is not that difficult and there are even separate > implementations :) > > > "not trivial" was admittedly possibly overstated. My own view is that as > soon as code contains: > > #if defined(WIN32) > > the steam kinda goes out of my sails. :/ > > i admit to being somewhat of a weenie in that regard.
So what you do is you have a wrapper around terminfo so the main fossil code is clean and not platform specific. For non terminfo platforms, just return nothing. > ANSI escape codes cover _most_ cases but there are always terminals out > there which get confused by them and i always seem to stumble across > such terminals, so i am generally not a friend of colorized output. I'm not a fan of ANSI escape codes either, but I do enjoy coloured output on the console. Fight now I cope out and diff to a file and edit in in vim for my colourised view, but I'd rather just pipe to a pager on the console directly. Roy _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
