*AnsiEsc.txt* Ansi Escape Sequence Visualization Dec 13, 2010 Author: Charles E. Campbell, Jr. (remove NOSPAM from Campbell's email first) Copyright: (c) 2004-2010 by Charles E. Campbell, Jr. *AnsiEsc-copyright* The VIM LICENSE applies to AnsiEsc.vim and AnsiEsc.txt (see |copyright|) except use "AnsiEsc" instead of "Vim". No warranty, express or implied. Use At-Your-Own-Risk. ============================================================================== 1. Contents *AnsiEsc* *AnsiEsc-contents* 1. Contents ...................................|AnsiEsc-contents| 2. AnsiEsc Manual ...................................|AnsiEsc| 3. AnsiEsc History ...................................|AnsiEsc-history| ============================================================================== 2. Manual *AnsiEsc-manual* CONCEAL -- the best mode. For this, your vim must have +conceal. A typical way to get the conceal feature: * cd ..wherever../vim72/ * wget http://vince.negri.googlepages.com/conceal-ownsyntax.diff * patch -p0 < conceal-ownsyntax.diff * make distclean * configure --with-features=huge * make * make install Normal: -- ansi escape sequences themselves are Ignore'd~ Ansi escape sequences have the expected effect on subsequent text, but the ansi escape sequences themselves still take up screen columns. The sequences are displayed using "Ignore" highlighting; depending on your colorscheme, this should either make the sequences blend into your background or be visually suppressed. If the sequences aren't suppressed, you need to improve your colorscheme! USAGE~ :AnsiEsc -- toggles Ansi escape sequence highlighting :AnsiEsc! -- rebuilds highlighting for new/removed three or more element Ansi escape sequences. RESULT~ Ansi escape sequences become concealed or ignored (depending on whether your vim supports Negri's conceal mode), and their effect on subsequent text is emulated with Vim's syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting for one and two element codes are hard-coded into AnsiEsc.vim. There are too many possibilities for three or more element codes; these are supported by examining the file for such sequences and only building syntax highlighting rules for such sequences as are actually present in the document. EXAMPLE~ You'll want to use :AnsiEsc to see the following properly! (using Vince Negri's conceal option or vim 7.3) Color Escape Sequences  -   1   2   3   4   5   7  black black black black black black black red red red red red red red green green green green green green green yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow blue blue blue blue blue blue blue magenta magenta magenta magenta magenta magenta magenta cyan cyan cyan cyan cyan cyan cyan white white white white white white white Black B B B B B B B B Red R R R R R R R R Green G G G G G G G G Yellow Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Blue B B B B B B B B Magenta M M M M M M M M Cyan C C C C C C C C White W W W W W W W W Here's the vim logo: / \ / \ / \ / \ +----+ +----+ \ ++ ++ +- | \ /| | / / \ X | | / /O \ \| | / /+-+ +-\//-+ | |/ / | | | v | | / / | | | + +| | / | |/| |\/|| +----\ +-+ +-+ ++ \ / \ / ============================================================================== 3. AnsiEsc History *AnsiEsc-history* {{{1 v12 Jul 23, 2010 * changed conc to |'cole'| to correspond to vim 7.3's change Aug 10, 2010 * (Rainer M Schmid) changed conceallevel setting to depend on whether the version is before vim 7.3; for 7.3, also sets concealcursor * Restores conc/cole/cocu settings when AnsiEsc is toggled off. Dec 13, 2010 * Included some additional sequences involving 0 v11 Apr 20, 2010 * AnsiEsc now supports enabling/disabling via a menu * [K and [00m now supported (as grep --color=always issues them) v10 May 06, 2009 * Three or more codes in an ANSI escape sequence are supported by building custom syntax and highlighting commands. May 20, 2009 * cecutil bugfix v9 May 12, 2008 * Now in plugin + autoload format. Provides :AnsiEsc command to toggle Ansi-escape sequence processing. Jan 01, 2009 * Applies Ignore highlighting to extended Ansi escape sequences support 256-colors. Mar 18, 2009 * Includes "rapid blink" ansi escape sequences. Vim doesn't have a blinking attribute, so such text uses "standout" for vim and "undercurl" for gvim. v8 Aug 16, 2006 * Uses undercurl, and so is only available for vim 7.0 v7 Dec 14, 2004 * Works better with vim2ansi output and Vince Negri's conceal patch for vim 6.x. v2 Nov 24, 2004 * This version didn't use Vince Negri's conceal patch (used Ignore highlighting) ============================================================================== Modelines: {{{1 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:fdm=marker: