On 6 March 2012 13:46, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06 Mar 2012, at 13:18, Camillo Bruni wrote: > >> actually its a bit of a hack :D (well the implementation not) >> >> but the problem is, that we should properly detect if the terminal supports >> colors or not ;) otherwise you might get some ugly escape sequences :D > > Do you know the tput tool? > > I use it in my makefiles like this: > START_BOLD=$(shell tput bold) > STOP_BOLD=$(shell tput sgr0) > > It gives you the supported escape sequence for a give style based on a > database of terminals and your current environment. > yeah, but that means that VM (or some plugin/prim) is needed to detect that it outputs to terminal, and not redirected to file or pipes output to another process.
> Best regards > Stefan > > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
