How about colors and terminal graphics in std.format?

[Chad J]

On 03/11/2012 11:27 PM, Damian Ziemba wrote:
> On Monday, 12 March 2012 at 02:52:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/11/12 9:16 PM, Chad J wrote:
>>> I remember doing colored terminal output in Python. It was pretty nifty,
>>> and allows for some slick CLI design. I think D can do better by putting
>>> it in the standard library.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> So, would this sort of thing make it in?
>>
>> I don't know, seems interesting but I wonder how portable that could
>> be. Probably I'd define a more general means a la %q to mean "send a
>> control sequence" and then would define control sequences as functions
>> or constants.
>>
>>> ...
>>
>> Andrei
>
> It could work.
> In my small framework I use version blocks and I use ansi escape
> sequences for posix and SetConsoleTextAttribute for windoze.
>
> Ofcourse there would be a need to create unified enumeration with colors
> as they differ on those platforms too.
>

Good catch.

>
> public enum Font
> {
> Normal = 0,
> Underline = 0x8000,
> Reverse = 0x4000,
> }
>
> public enum Color
> {
> Default = 0x0000,
> Blue = 0x0001,
> Green = 0x0002,
> Aqua = 0x0003,
> Red = 0x0004,
> Purple= 0x0005,
> Yellow= 0x0006,
> Gray = 0x0008,
> LightBlue = 0x0009,
> LightGreen = 0x000A,
> LightAqua = 0x000B,
> LightRed = 0x000C,
> LightPurple= 0x000D,
> }
>
> Those are colors and font-attributes that I found to match both Windows
> and Posix
>

If you can show me you're work and it's licensed in a way that I can use 
it in Phobos, then I'll happily try to make use of it.  It'd be much 
appreciated.