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

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:33:47 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2018-08-07 00:15, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > Briot Emmanuel wrote in message
> > news:810948b7-1370-4c0d-aaf3-ed66b7dfbba5@googlegroups.com...
> > 
> >> 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.
> 
> I didn't test it, because the idea to use character terminal in XXI 
> century is beyond silly, …

Conversely, on the major widely-deployed UIs/UXes {X Window, Win32, Windows UWP, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Android, Java Swing} the •only• technology in common among all of them is terminfo/termcap-specified POSIX terminals for escape-sequence ChUIs in terminal windows.  Some of us still appreciate the ability to fire up Vi or Emacs in terminfo-/termcap-specified ChUI mode.  Indeed, some of us still appreciate the ability to use old software that isn't forcibly deprecated due to fads & fashions.  (Which is worse?  1. Escape-sequence ChUI still working versus 2. deprecation of Display Postcript of yesteryear or Mir nowadays, as fads & fantasies pass us by. )  And even more to the point, how much churn & vicious not-invented-here/not-in-my-backyard tug-of-war has Gnome and KDE (and Ubuntu's divergent UX/UI strategy du jour) gone through in recent years for no good reason?

the purported replacement for X Window 11:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)