Fancy-ANSI
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How HN took it
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for browser-based ANSI display, e.g. a MUD client
From 1 comment
Ah this is awesome. I've been working on a browser based mud client and none of the existing options handled everything I needed. I'll be switching to this immediately, it seems…
giraffe_lady on HN
Objections
Blink support missing
From 1 comment
A travesty it's missing blink support.
kevin_thibedeau on HN
Empty SGR sequence not handled as reset (bug, fixed in v0.1.1)
From 1 comment
Simple bug report: an empty SGR (CSI m, [m) doesn’t do anything, but should be equivalent to 0, reset all.
chrismorgan on HN
Unclear which ANSI control codes beyond SGR are implemented
From 1 comment
It is unclear to what extent the ANSI control codes are implemented. The README mentions SGR and the 24-bit color extensions in the nonstandard semicolon syntax. What about…
blueflow on HN
Requests
Add blink support
From 1 comment
A travesty it's missing blink support.
kevin_thibedeau on HN
Questions
Which ANSI reference standard was used and what is supported beyond SGR
From 1 comment
It is unclear to what extent the ANSI control codes are implemented. The README mentions SGR and the 24-bit color extensions in the nonstandard semicolon syntax. What about…
blueflow on HN
Alternatives named
Rust crate anstyle-svg for generating SVGs from ANSI output
From 1 comment
Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's…
epage on HN