Term::ANSIColor - ANSI escape sequences in Ruby

August 7, 2024 ยท View on GitHub

Description

This library can be used to color/decolor strings using ANSI escape sequences.

Installation

Use rubygems to install the gem:

# gem install term-ansicolor

Download

The homepage of this library is located at

Examples

The following executables are provided with Term::ANSIColor:

  • term_cdiff: colors a diff patch
  • term_colortab: Displays a table of the 256 terminal colors with their indices and nearest html equivalents.
  • term_display: displays a ppm3 or ppm6 image file in the terminal. If the netpbm programs are installed it can handle a lot of other image file formats.
  • term_decolor: decolors any text file that was colored with ANSI escape sequences
  • term_mandel: displays the mandelbrot set in the terminal
  • term_plasma: draws a plasma effect on the console, possibly animated and refreshed every -n seconds.
  • term_snow: displays falling snow in the terminal using ANSI movement sequences.

Additionally the file examples/example.rb in the source/gem-distribution shows how this library can be used.

Author

Florian Frank mailto:flori@ping.de

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.