[erlang-questions] terminal codes

[Henning Diedrich]

This way of involing a program seems to prevent it as well.

erl -s test run -s init stop

What alternate way would allow control codes to get propagated unchanched?

Thanks!
Henning


黃耀賢 (Yau-Hsien Huang) wrote:
> I made a Erlang script and got output that seems correct.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env escript
> -compile(export_all).
> main([]) ->
>     io:format("\e[1;36mabc\e[0;37m").
>
> I checked it by pasting what printed into a telnet BBS and viewing it
> effect. It works.
> So the problem may shift to how to make Erlang shell support terminal color
> codes.
>
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Henning Diedrich <hd2010@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>   
>> Can I print terminal color codes out of Erlang?
>>
>> E.g. \e[30m?
>>
>> The io: functions seem to force control codes to be printable.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Henning
>>
>>
>>     
>
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