Re: [RP] ANSI colours in the bar

[Shawn Betts]

Benno <address@hidden> writes:

> Ok, so I had another crazy idea that you'll all probably hate :).
> 
> Basically I would like to be able to print ANSI escape
> sequences in the bar, (eg: like from the output of ls --color).
>
> So it really didn't take much hacking at all to add this into 
> the marked_wrapped_message function.

Yikes! That's an interesting hack I never thought of :).

> By supprting ANSI escape sequences we have a nice generic way
> to print colours, or reverse text, in the bar. This means
> we don't need to have a marked_ function, the markup can
> just be encoded in the string.

This is true.

> Ok, so maybe no-one else here wants to display colours in the
> bar because that is getting too close to pointless decoration,
> or maybe ANSI escape sequences aren't the best way to implement
> it. Let me know.

This is also true.

I'm fairly reluctant to put a patch like this in, as you know :). The
marked text works to highlight part of the message, which is all we
need. If there was a good reason (that did something useful) to put
this in, then I might. But as it stands it just seems like more code
to maintain.

While this does get us closer to being able to play nethack inside
ratpoison, I'm gonna sit on this one until someone comes up with some
solid evidence of ansi-colors being a Good Thing.

Nice hack, though!

Shawn