[RFC] ColorD

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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:04:51 -0500, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 19:28:21 UTC, Robik wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to introduce ColorD, small library that allows to simply  
>> manipulate console output colors, both on Windows and Posix operating  
>> systems. It also supports font styles such as underline and  
>> strikethrough(Posix feature only).
>>
>>
>> Simple example:
>>
>> import std.stdio, colord;
>> void main()
>> {
>>     setConsoleColors(Fg.red, Bg.blue);
>>     writeln("Red text on blue background.");
>>     resetConsoleColors(); // Bring back initial state
>> }
>>
>>
>> Feedback welcome.
>>
>> GitHub: https://github.com/robik/ColorD
>>
>> Regards.
>
> This is very much related to the ycurses and dcurses projects, and I  
> strongly suggest you work with people behind those projects and come up  
> with a nice/flexible/robust "console" API/package for D.

I had some trouble getting in touch with ylixir last time, and pardon me  
if I'm wrong,
but *you* are the 'people behind' dcurses.  =P

I would be willing to chip in for something like this though.

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