Colors on output

[Bearcat Şándor]

Would there be a way to have colors on output for format_item and format_album commands?

Thanks,

Bearcat

[Adrian Sampson]

Hmm… I’m not quite sure I understand. Where were you imagining the colors should appear?

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[Bearcat Şándor]

Well, say when you do a 'beet ls Beatles' you might want the artist in green, the title in orange and the track time in yellow. Depending on the fields you have setup in your config of course.

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[Bearcat Şándor]

Or at least green, orange and yellow according to your terminal settings.

[Adrian Sampson]

OK, thanks for explaining! For what it’s worth, you can probably accomplish this already by injecting ANSI color escape sequences directly into your format strings. For example, this works for me in zsh:

$ beet ls -f $fg[red]'$artist'$fg[white]' - '$fg[green]'$title’

You could also sort out how to concoct the right strings to put in your YAML config. If you still think built-in support would be better, please do file a feature request on GitHub with full details! (For example, we’d need a design for how to specify colors and for how to handle the case when output is not for a terminal.)

[Bearcat Şándor]

That should work great. I didn't realise that the ansi sequences would work.

[Bearcat Şándor]

i know this isn't a help channel,but i don't even know where to begin to add ansi color sequences to my YAML configs. Do you?

[Adrian Sampson]

It will take a little homework, but the key is that ANSI escape sequences consist of ordinary ASCII characters (and therefore also UTF-8 characters). Specifically, ANSI escape sequences start with the ESC control character, which is U+001B:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1b/index.htm

[vastyfields offrance]

If there's anyone still interested in this, I colored my output like so using the config file:

format_item: "\u001b[92m$artist\u001b[39m - \u001b[31m$album\u001b[39m - \u001b[93m$title\u001b[39m"

format_album: "\u001b[92m$albumartist\u001b[39m - \u001b[31m$album\u001b[39m"

[Karcsi Kolbasz]

Where is this set in the config?