I remember doing colored terminal output in Python. It was pretty
nifty, and allows for some slick CLI design. I think D can do better by
putting it in the standard library.
I was thinking something along the lines of this:
http://www.chadjoan.com/d/dmd.2.058/html/d/phobos/std_format.html
I figure it would probably be easy to get some of the basics down. More
advanced stuff would probably involve messing with terminfo or <term.h>.
Windows' (terribly bad) command prompt can have some of these
capabilities implemented too, but in a roundabout way because Windows
defines API functions that need to be called to affect terminal graphics
and coloring. I figure that would require the help of the I/O routines
if I were to work on that.
If there's interest, I might take a stab at it.
So, would this sort of thing make it in?
Oh, on an unrelated note, Phobos' documentation make target is quite broken:
blahblah/dmd.git/src/phobos $ make -fposix.mak html
make: *** No rule to make target `../web/phobos-prerelease/index.html',
needed by `html'. Stop.
I examined the makefile and concocted this line of bash that constructs
my desired html file:
dmd -m32 -d -c -o- -version=StdDdoc -I../druntime/import std/format.d
std.ddoc -Dfstd_format.html
and copied std.ddoc from a release version of dmd (it's in src/phobos).
