How about colors and terminal graphics in std.format?

[Christian Manning]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 01:53:11 UTC, Chad J wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 09:36 PM, Christian Manning wrote:
>> On Monday, 12 March 2012 at 09:51:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it would nice to have, but not in std.format. 
>>> std.terminal or
>>> similar would be better.
>>
>> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff 
>> for
>> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour 
>> output, eg.
>> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just 
>> things to help
>> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.
>
> Although this would be cool, it is out of the scope of what I 
> am willing to spend time on.

That's fair enough, I was mostly making a point that both things 
are closely related and would make sense in a common module.