color for print in output pane

[Michel Sauvard]

Hello

Is there a way to print in the output in color.

My purpose is to outline errors.

Either giving the color or with an error style like "Lua: error"

I tryed scite.SendOutput. SCI_INSERTTEXT works but I dont see anything about color, SCI_ADDTEXT do nothing and SCI_ADDSTYLESDTEXT trigger an error "not scriptable"

Best regards

[Neil Hodgson]

Michel Sauvard:

Is there a way to print in the output in color.

   Turn on lexer.errorlist.escape.sequences and try some escape sequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors

   Neil

[Michel Sauvard]

Hello

The colors are quite dull but it works enough.

Only Bold and 8 foreground colors are possible.

In case someone is interested here is my test:

for ii = 1,99,1 do
  print ("\27["..ii.."m"..ii.."\27[0m")
end

Best regards

[BugFix@AutoIt]

I've tried it with SciTE v 5.2.0.

lexer.errorlist.escape.sequences=1

I have run the Lua code from the previous post - but it shows no effect. Only numbers are displayed.

Any suggestions? 

[Neil Hodgson]

BugFix@AutoIt:

> I've tried it with SciTE v 5.2.0.
>
> lexer.errorlist.escape.sequences=1
>
> I have run the Lua code from the previous post - but it shows no effect. Only numbers are displayed.

Just tried on Mac and Windows and shows for me.
It should show ‘1’ bold and ’31’ to ’37’ with colours plus a pinkish background.
Try reverting any customized settings - download a new copy and clear your user settings.

Another approach to the original issue is to mimic another style of error message. gcc’s is popular:
path:lineNumber:message

like
bad.py:23:bad stuff

or Microsoft’s (“error” is literal):
path(line): error text
x.bat(2): error Not available

The path and line number don’t have to be real
x:0:failed

Neil

[BugFix@AutoIt]

Thank you Neil.

It works for me on Windows with the foreground color setting (default and bold). But all colors have this ugly background color. I have not found a way to change this.

Here my test script and result:

fg = {
red='\27[31m',
redbold='\27[31;1m',
green='\27[32m',
greenbold='\27[32;1m',
yellow='\27[33m',
yellowbold='\27[33;1m',
blue='\27[34m',
bluebold='\27[34;1m',
pink='\27[35m',
pinkbold='\27[35;1m',
cyan='\27[36m',
cyanbold='\27[36;1m',
white='\27[37m',
whitebold='\27[37;1m',
def='\27[0m'}

print(fg.red..'List '..fg.cyan..'of '..fg.bluebold..'colors'..fg.pinkbold..'!\n'..fg.def)

for color, seq in pairs (fg) do
    if tostring(color) ~= 'def' then print(seq..tostring(color)..fg.def) end
end