Emulating or using ANSII escape codes from code within a running program

The Apple Terminal.app app supports DEC VT100 ANSI control sequences.

That’s the foundation for a number of apps, including the command line text editors.

Here’s a zsh example: https://github.com/molovo/color/blob/master/color.zsh

I’m unfamiliar with ANSI terminal handling in Ada, but apps in other languages using curses or other common libraries will work, as will sending raw ANSI control sequences. (As is shown in thar zsh example.)

There’s an ncurses port available in Homebrew.

More than you ever wanted to know about VT100 terminals, and control sequences: https://vt100.net/

The following Zsh script will print to a 256 color capable Terminal window, all colors from 0 to 255 that can be plugged into

echo "\033[00;38;5;226mscreaming_yellow_zonker"

#!/bin/zsh

for i in {0..255} ; do
    printf "\x1b[38;5;${i}m%3d " "${i}"
    if (( $i == 15 )) || (( $i > 15 )) && (( ($i-15) % 12 == 0 )); then
        echo;
    fi
done
exit 0



Did you try Github? https://github.com/mosteo/ansi-ada