I'm trying to make a console-based program that makes use of ANSI escape codes. I can't seem to figure out how to go about printing a string object formatted with ANSI escape codes. I've tried the following.
'\x1b[31mHi' displayNl This prints the entire string, including the escape code, without any formatting. I would have expected this to print "Hi" in red (and then everything else in the console after that, as I didn't include the escape code to reset the color.) After googling a bit, I was able to find a couple issues where people were trying to produce things like newlines using "\n". Most of the answers were using the Transcript object's cr method, but I didn't find anything about colors in the textCollector class. It looks like it shouldn't be all that hard to create my own module in C to achieve this functionality, but I'd like to know if there's a better way first. I'm aware of the ncurses bindings, but I'm not sure that'd be practical for just making certain pieces of text in the program colored. So, is there a standard way of outputting colored text to the terminal in GNU Smalltalk using ANSI escape sequences? Thanks! _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list help-smalltalk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
