On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:02:27AM +0100, Christian Manning wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 01:53:11 UTC, Chad J wrote: > >On 03/12/2012 09:36 PM, Christian Manning wrote: > >>On Monday, 12 March 2012 at 09:51:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > >>> > >>>I think it would nice to have, but not in std.format. std.terminal > >>>or similar would be better. > >> > >>It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff for > >>manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour output, > >>eg. get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just > >>things to help with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy > >>to use. > > > >Although this would be cool, it is out of the scope of what I am > >willing to spend time on. > > That's fair enough, I was mostly making a point that both things are > closely related and would make sense in a common module.
We could start off with said module just doing colors for now, and then gradually add more stuff to it later. T -- Ph.D. = Permanent head Damage