Alot has happened since moving to ffi. New widgets and containers, a new tabbedpane that hopefully doesn’t suck and is more rubyesque. However, its amazing how simple the color formatting issue was. Took me only a few minutes to get working with a good regular expression.
The motivation is to be able to have a document with color formatting. I am using the color formatting code of tmux, i.e., #[fg=green, bg=blue, bold] etc. However, I added an “#[end]” tag which pops the previous color, so now its more like html’s span, than the terminal escape sequences which just override the previous. I’ll ofcourse use this in the statusline, in help screens, and also in some way in textview, and somehow even in messages, alerts, messageboxes etc. It’s still rough, does no checking for mistakes and I don’t have a routine to wrap text ignoring the color stuff. That will be needed soon.
Edit: I’ve also now added ANSI formatted text in textview
