[TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Wed Nov 25 14:03:08 CST 2020
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20201125180048.IvtOI%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
|Grant Taylor wrote in
| <9c1595cc-54a1-8af9-0c2d-083cb04dd97c at spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>:
||As I find myself starting yet another project that that wants to use
||ANSI control sequences for colorization of text, I find myself -- yet
||again -- wondering if there is a better way to generate the output from
||the code in a way that respects TERMinal capabilites.
||
||Is there a better / different control sequence that I can ~> should use
||for colorizing / stylizing output that will account for the differences
||in capabilities between a VT100 and XTerm?
||
||Can I wrap things that I output so that I don't send color control
||sequences to a TERMinal that doesn't support them?
|
| color_init() {
| [ -n "${NOCOLOUR}" ] && return
| [ -n "${MAILX_CC_TEST_NO_COLOUR}" ] && return
| # We do not want color for "make test > .LOG"!
| if (command -v stty && command -v tput) >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
Of course that subshell (..if it is one..) is not necessary, it
could be { ..; } or x&&y&&, whatever.
Must be a leftover, or whatever i have thought once i wrote this.
| (<&1 >/dev/null stty -a) 2>/dev/null; then
| { sgr0=`tput sgr0`; } 2>/dev/null
| [ $? -eq 0 ] || return
| { saf1=`tput setaf 1`; } 2>/dev/null
| [ $? -eq 0 ] || return
| { saf2=`tput setaf 2`; } 2>/dev/null
| [ $? -eq 0 ] || return
| { saf3=`tput setaf 3`; } 2>/dev/null
| [ $? -eq 0 ] || return
| { b=`tput bold`; } 2>/dev/null
| [ $? -eq 0 ] || return
|
| COLOR_ERR_ON=${saf1}${b} COLOR_ERR_OFF=${sgr0}
| COLOR_WARN_ON=${saf3}${b} COLOR_WARN_OFF=${sgr0}
| COLOR_OK_ON=${saf2} COLOR_OK_OFF=${sgr0}
| unset saf1 saf2 saf3 b
| fi
|}
|
|Is what i use for a make system.
A sh(1)-based test, to be exact.
Ciao,
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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