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Title: Colors in Terminal
Post by: cmpitg on May 29, 2011, 08:41:05 AM

Hi guys,

I'm developing a console application which makes use of VT-100 compatible terminals. Usually, to produce text color, I use the escaped phrase `\033$COLOR_CODE`. For example, to output the world "Hello world" in red, I use

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echo "\033[41mHello world!"

In newLISP, I tried to do the same thing with

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(println "\\033[41mHello world!")
(println {\033[41mHello world!})

But neither works. Does anyone know how to produce colors in terminal with newLISP?

Title: Re: Colors in Terminal
Post by: m i c h a e l on May 29, 2011, 09:50:17 AM

This works using Terminal on OS X:

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(println "27[0;31mHello world!27[0m")

Hope this helps.

m i c h a e l

Title: Re: Colors in Terminal
Post by: cmpitg on May 29, 2011, 10:19:33 AM

Thank you very much! I'm using ROXTerm in Gentoo GNU/Linux with Zsh and it works beautifully :-).

Now I understand. ASCII's 033 in octal is equivalent to 27 in decimal. (Somehow) newLISP uses decimal system to describe escape codes instead of octal.

Title: Re: Colors in Terminal
Post by: Camryn65 on January 05, 2012, 02:00:23 AM

Is there any way to apply colors in terminal in order files/folders to differ when i connect to a server ? As you know files/folders are the same color so it would be easer for me to recognize folders or files at a glance. I have made this change

export CLICOLOR=1

export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

export PS1="[33[1;32m][$(date +%H:%M)][hu: W$ [33[0m] "

but it doesn't work with ssd connection through terminal.

thanks!!

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Forum => newLISP and the O.S. => Topic started by: cmpitg on May 29, 2011, 08:41:05 AM