Re: Can Ada print coloured/styled text to the terminal? (ANSI escape sequences?)

[Per Sandberg <per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se>]

On 08/07/18 00:15, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> <briot.emmanuel@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> You can also take a look at GNATCOLL.terminal, in the GNAT
>> Components Collection. It will do colors either using ansi escape
>> sequences or, on Windows, proper system calls. In terms of
>> portability, better to think early on that not all terminals support
>> escape sequences...
> 
> And they don't all support the same escape sequences, either. But most
> important is that Windows almost never supports escape sequences, so any
> code that you want to be reasonably portable has to avoid them. (If you want
> it really portable, that is to work with other Ada compileers, you have to
> avoid GNATCOLL, too, since it is GNAT-specific.)
> 
>                                                     Randy.
> 
> 
> 

Yes these source-code libraries are strongly associated with GNAT, but 
most of the code is compilable with "any" ada-12 compiler without change 
and they are battle proven so whey not use them instead of reinventing 
the wheel.

/P