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digitalmars.D.announce - Release: console-colors v1.0.0

reply Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:
`console-colors` is a reboot of the `colorize`[1] package, a 
library for colors in your terminal.

**DUB:** https://code.dlang.org/packages/console-colors
**GitHub:** https://github.com/p0nce/console-colors

**Features:**
   - _in-band_ color information like `colorize`.
   - 16 colors, foreground and background. Caution not all colors 
are adequate on various terminals.
   - HTML-like tags for colors instead of VT-100 escape codes. 
Some chars must be escaped with entities: `&gt`; `&lt;` and 
`&amp;`, this is what the `escapeCCL(string s)` function does.

```
     import consolecolors;
     cwriteln("<lblue>this is light blue</lblue>");
```

   - 32 UFCS short functions like `.red` and `.on_white`.
   - Colors are stacked, when you exit a color if will restore the 
former.
   - Separate exception type for exceptions with coloured 
messages: `CCLException`.
     Handy for nice compiler messages.
   - like the "colorize" package, coloured string must print 
through cwrite[f][ln] function.
   - globally disable console colors, with 
`disableConsoleColors()`.

[1] https://code.dlang.org/packages/colorize
Mar 25 2022
parent Guillaume Piolat <first.name gmail.com> writes:
New in console-colors v1.3.1:
- Possibility to enable UTF-8 codepage in Windows terminal: call 
`enableConsoleUTF8()` at start-up.
- Use VT100 escaped codes when supported in Windows (some Windows 
10+and later). It's a bit faster.
- Bold text with `<b>text</b>`, `<strong>text</strong>` or 
`.in_bold()` call (VT-100 only)
- Italic text with `<em>text</em>`, `<i>text</i>` or 
`.in_italic()` call (VT-100 only)
- Blinking text with `<blink>text</blink>` or `.in_blink()` call 
(VT-100 only)
- Underlined text with `<u>text</u>` or `.in_underline()` call 
(VT-100 only)

**DUB:** https://code.dlang.org/packages/console-colors

You can see what you can do with `dub test console-colors`.
Or alternatively running the `examples/simple` example from the 
repo.
Feb 25