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3556 :: color text output in nimble

• sflennik (orginal) [2018-02-17T23:29:01+01:00] view original

  Is there an easy way to output color text to the terminal in the nimble file?

  I tried using standard terminal codes but that didn't work.

  I then found and used the Terminal module. That works in a nim file, see the example below, however you cannot import Terminal in a nimble file (or nimscript) without errors.

  import Terminal
  setForegroundColor(fgBlue)
  stdout.write "[Blue Text]"
  resetAttributes()
  echo " normal colored text"
  Run

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• Araq (orginal) [2018-02-18T16:44:32+01:00] view original

  On Unix you can write escape sequences, it doesn't need NimScript support. On Windows escape sequences can be enabled for a terminal too, but it's not the default and the API call to enable it is not avaiable for Nimscript either.

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• sflennik (orginal) [2018-02-18T22:16:01+01:00] view original

  Thanks. My problem was using the wrong escape code.

  Here are some examples of showing [Suite] in bold blue.

  Python: python -c "print '033[1;34m[Suite]033[0m'"

  Nim: echo "e[1;34m[Suite]e[00mn"

  Bash: printf "e[1;34m[Suite]e[00mn"

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• alextu (orginal) [2018-08-01T04:00:24+02:00] view original

  in new nim, it as below echo "e[1;34m[Suite]e[00m"

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2018-08-01T15:18:09+02:00] view original

  You shouldn't need to use raw escapes (not sure if there's anything special with Nimscripts that negates that). See the tests in terminal.nim for examples (on devel).

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• Araq (orginal) [2018-08-01T15:41:45+02:00] view original

  As I said, Nimscript doesn't support terminal.nim (on Windows, maybe on Posix it works).

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