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

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On 2018-08-07 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.
>
> I didn't test it, because the idea to use character terminal in XXI 
> century is beyond silly, but I heard that Windows 10 cmd has them enabled. 
> It took less than 3 decades to do, but they finally managed it! On older 
> versions ANSI.SYS driver is required.

Really? Why?

ANSI.SYS was depreciated some decades ago; my understanding was that it was 
unsupported on Windows 7 and 8. Going back the dinosaur age makes little 
sense (and causes security issues).

There's really no good reason to use TUIs anyway; either write a proper GUI 
or use a browser for your interface (HTML is no harder to write than escape 
sequences). If that's overkill, then basic Put_Line is enough.

                                                    Randy.