How about colors and terminal graphics in std.format?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-12 03:16, 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.
>
> I was thinking something along the lines of this:
> http://www.chadjoan.com/d/dmd.2.058/html/d/phobos/std_format.html
>
> I figure it would probably be easy to get some of the basics down. More
> advanced stuff would probably involve messing with terminfo or <term.h>.
> Windows' (terribly bad) command prompt can have some of these
> capabilities implemented too, but in a roundabout way because Windows
> defines API functions that need to be called to affect terminal graphics
> and coloring. I figure that would require the help of the I/O routines
> if I were to work on that.
>
> If there's interest, I might take a stab at it.
>
> So, would this sort of thing make it in?

I think it would nice to have, but not in std.format. std.terminal or 
similar would be better.

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/Jacob Carlborg