[GH-ISSUE #464] question: why convert ansi escape sequences to "color codes" #333

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Originally created by @ghostsquad on GitHub (Jun 27, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/464

This is just a design question of why you chose to convert ansi escape sequences to "color codes"?

Originally created by @ghostsquad on GitHub (Jun 27, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/464 This is just a design question of why you chose to convert ansi escape sequences to "color codes"?

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@rivo commented on GitHub (Jun 28, 2020):

The colour tags came first. I wanted a simple way to add colour to widgets*.

But then there were users who wanted to display the output of other processes in a TextView, including colour. So now there's a converter for ANSI escape sequences.

Of course, for some, it's too simple. And it makes it difficult for others who frequently need to display square brackets without changing colours. But it's hard to please everyone so there's a tradeoff here.

@rivo commented on GitHub (Jun 28, 2020): The colour tags came first. I wanted a simple way to add colour to widgets*. But then there were users who wanted to display the output of other processes in a `TextView`, including colour. So now there's a converter for ANSI escape sequences. --- * Of course, for some, it's too simple. And it makes it difficult for others who frequently need to display square brackets without changing colours. But it's hard to please everyone so there's a tradeoff here.