<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks for your comments and trying it out, all of you! I like the idea of mimicking what the terminal would look like so I'll see if I can get Robby's idea to work. --- As for printf-color, that was just an oversight, but I was planning to add a high level formatting procedure to format a message with multiple colors in one go, rather than multiple calls. I just don't have the ability to do it yet. e.g. error: the value X is invalid. please make sure it follows Y. error might want to be in red, and X in cyan to signify user data from the rest of message. At the moment you would have to do something like (display-color "error:" #:fg 'red) (display-color " the value " #:fg 'white) (display-color X #:fg 'cyan) (display-color " is invalid. please make sure it follows " #:fg 'white) (display-color Y #:fg 'green) (newline) it's cumbersome and not very readable. Where as something like (made up just now) (outputf-color "(error:) the value (~a) is invalid. please make sure it follows (~a).~n" ([#:fg 'red]) (X [#:fg 'cyan]) (Y [#:fg 'green])) shows the intent and the wanted output much clearer. (outputf-color colored-format-string colored-args ...) where colored-args is a list containing the data and a sublist each for the the foreground and background color - all optional but at least one must be supplied. colored-format-string supports the standard formatting operators like printf, but they must be inside parentheses. Anything inside parentheses will be considered valid to be colored according to the relevant argument, processed from left-to-right. Anything inside the parentheses that is not a formatting operator will flow directly through to the output. I'm open for suggestions on this too. --- I'll give Gregg's idea a go as well too to reduce the repetition. Cheers<div> </div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> From: Asumu Takikawa <asumu@ccs.neu.edu> To: Richard Hopkins <richhguard-monotone@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: "users@racket-lang.org" <users@racket-lang.org> Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2015, 23:17 Subject: Re: [racket] terminal-color package - output colored text to the terminal - comments before release </div> <div class="y_msg_container"> On 2015-01-25 22:19:51 +0000, Richard Hopkins wrote: > To help me learn Racket, and also because I find colored text useful I've > been working on > a Racket package which I aim to release on <a href="http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/" target="_blank">http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/</a> This is cool! I tried the examples on Linux and it works for me. > * the API is right for end users I noticed that a `printf-color` was missing. That might be handy. > * the documentation is readable with decent examples The docs look good to me. One thing I might note in the "Examples" section is that the output in the docs don't look like how it's supposed to look in a real terminal. Cheers, Asumu </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>