tired-fox / ansi

ansi

This is a project where I attempt to recreate the ansi markup language I made in Python, but in Rust. The idea is that you use [] to denote macros and styling. * and _ represent bold and underline respectively. @ denotes a color macro, ~ a hyperlink macro, and $ a global character escape macro. All macros continue until the end of the string or until the are closed with the same symbol they were opened with. Color macros (@) have the most complex syntax. @ followed by F represents foreground/text color. If it is instead followed by B it represents background color. If neither F or B are provided then the color applies to both text and background. After these characters you define a color. It can be one of the system colors: black, red, green, yellow, blue, cyan, magenta, or white. Beyond this you can define a XTerm code, rgb code, or a hex code. XTerm codes are 0-255, rgb codes are r,g,b with each of r, g, and b being a value 0-255. Hex codes are prefixed with # and can be either 3 characters or 6 #FFF or #FFFFFF. Urls are a simlier syntax. You just put the url you want to use for the hyperlink after the ~ character. This will look something like ~https://example.com. Global escape macros take no additional syntax. All macros ignore whitespace except for the F or B that follow the color (@) symbol.