1 ;;; ansi-color.el --- translate ANSI escape sequences into faces
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5 ;; Author: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
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27 ;; This file provides a function that takes a string or a region
28 ;; containing Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences (formerly
29 ;; known as ANSI escape sequences) and tries to translate these into
32 ;; This allows you to run ls --color=yes in shell-mode. It is now
33 ;; enabled by default; to disable it, set ansi-color-for-comint-mode
36 ;; Note that starting your shell from within Emacs might set the TERM
37 ;; environment variable. The new setting might disable the output of
38 ;; SGR control sequences. Using ls --color=yes forces ls to produce
41 ;; SGR control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the ECMA-48
42 ;; standard (identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available as a
43 ;; PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>. The
44 ;; "Graphic Rendition Combination Mode (GRCM)" implemented is
45 ;; "cumulative mode" as defined in section 7.2.8. Cumulative mode means
46 ;; that whenever possible, SGR control sequences are combined (ie. blue
49 ;; The basic functions are:
51 ;; `ansi-color-apply' to colorize a string containing SGR control
54 ;; `ansi-color-filter-apply' to filter SGR control sequences from a
57 ;; `ansi-color-apply-on-region' to colorize a region containing SGR
60 ;; `ansi-color-filter-region' to filter SGR control sequences from a
65 ;; Georges Brun-Cottan <gbruncot@emc.com> for improving ansi-color.el
66 ;; substantially by adding the code needed to cope with arbitrary chunks
67 ;; of output and the filter functions.
69 ;; Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> for pointing me to ECMA-48.
71 ;; Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> for explaining obscure font-lock stuff and for
78 (defvar comint-last-output-start
)
82 (defgroup ansi-colors nil
83 "Translating SGR control sequences to faces.
84 This translation effectively colorizes strings and regions based upon
85 SGR control sequences embedded in the text. SGR (Select Graphic
86 Rendition) control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the
87 ECMA-48 standard \(identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available
88 as a PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>."
92 (defcustom ansi-color-faces-vector
93 [default bold default italic underline bold bold-italic modeline
]
94 "Faces used for SGR control sequences determining a face.
95 This vector holds the faces used for SGR control sequence parameters 0
98 Parameter Description Face used by default
103 4 underlined underline
104 5 slowly blinking bold
105 6 rapidly blinking bold-italic
106 7 negative image modeline
108 Note that the symbol `default' is special: It will not be combined
109 with the current face.
111 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
112 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'."
113 :type
'(vector face face face face face face face face
)
114 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
115 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
118 (defcustom ansi-color-names-vector
119 ["black" "red" "green" "yellow" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "white"]
120 "Colors used for SGR control sequences determining a color.
121 This vector holds the colors used for SGR control sequences parameters
122 30 to 37 \(foreground colors) and 40 to 47 (background colors).
134 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
135 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'.
137 Each element may also be a cons cell where the car and cdr specify the
138 foreground and background colors, respectively."
139 :type
'(vector (choice color
(cons color color
))
140 (choice color
(cons color color
))
141 (choice color
(cons color color
))
142 (choice color
(cons color color
))
143 (choice color
(cons color color
))
144 (choice color
(cons color color
))
145 (choice color
(cons color color
))
146 (choice color
(cons color color
)))
147 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
148 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
151 (defconst ansi-color-regexp
"\033\\[\\([0-9;]*m\\)"
152 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequences.")
154 (defconst ansi-color-drop-regexp
155 "\033\\[\\([ABCDsuK]\\|2J\\|=[0-9]+[hI]\\|[0-9;]*[Hf]\\)"
156 "Regexp that matches ANSI control sequences to silently drop.")
158 (defconst ansi-color-parameter-regexp
"\\([0-9]*\\)[m;]"
159 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequence parameters.")
162 ;; Convenience functions for comint modes (eg. shell-mode)
165 (defcustom ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
166 "Determines what to do with comint output.
168 If the symbol `filter', then filter all SGR control sequences.
169 If anything else (such as t), then translate SGR control sequences
170 into text properties.
172 In order for this to have any effect, `ansi-color-process-output' must
173 be in `comint-output-filter-functions'.
175 This can be used to enable colorized ls --color=yes output
176 in shell buffers. You set this variable by calling one of:
177 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on]
178 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off]
179 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter]"
180 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"Do nothing" nil
)
181 (const :tag
"Filter" filter
)
182 (const :tag
"Translate" t
))
186 (defvar ansi-color-apply-face-function
'ansi-color-apply-overlay-face
187 "Function for applying an Ansi Color face to text in a buffer.
188 This function should accept three arguments: BEG, END, and FACE,
189 and it should apply face FACE to the text between BEG and END.")
192 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on ()
193 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to t."
195 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
))
197 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off ()
198 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to nil."
200 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
202 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter ()
203 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to symbol `filter'."
205 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
))
208 (defun ansi-color-process-output (ignored)
209 "Maybe translate SGR control sequences of comint output into text properties.
211 Depending on variable `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' the comint output is
212 either not processed, SGR control sequences are filtered using
213 `ansi-color-filter-region', or SGR control sequences are translated into
214 text properties using `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
216 The comint output is assumed to lie between the marker
217 `comint-last-output-start' and the process-mark.
219 This is a good function to put in `comint-output-filter-functions'."
220 (let ((start-marker (or comint-last-output-start
222 (end-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
223 (cond ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
224 ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
)
225 (ansi-color-filter-region start-marker end-marker
))
227 (ansi-color-apply-on-region start-marker end-marker
)))))
229 (defalias 'ansi-color-unfontify-region
'font-lock-default-unfontify-region
)
230 (make-obsolete 'ansi-color-unfontify-region
"not needed any more" "24.1")
232 ;; Working with strings
233 (defvar ansi-color-context nil
234 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply'.
235 This is a list of the form (FACES FRAGMENT) or nil. FACES is a list of
236 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply' ended with, and FRAGMENT is a
237 string starting with an escape sequence, possibly the start of a new
239 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context
)
241 (defun ansi-color-filter-apply (string)
242 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from STRING.
244 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
245 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences. This information
246 will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set
247 `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
249 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
250 (let ((start 0) end result
)
251 ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it
252 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
253 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
254 ansi-color-context nil
))
255 ;; find the next escape sequence
256 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
257 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start end
))
258 start
(match-end 0)))
259 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
261 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
262 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
263 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
)
264 result
(concat result
(substring string start pos
))))
265 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start
))))
266 (setq ansi-color-context
(if fragment
(list nil fragment
))))
269 (defun ansi-color-apply (string)
270 "Translates SGR control sequences into text properties.
271 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
273 Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors
274 to STRING using text properties and returns the result. The colors used
275 are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'.
276 See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
278 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
279 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences and current face.
280 This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'.
281 Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
283 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
284 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context
))
285 (start 0) end escape-sequence result
287 ;; If context was saved and is a string, prepend it.
288 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
289 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
290 ansi-color-context nil
))
291 ;; Find the next escape sequence.
292 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
293 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1 string
))
294 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
296 (put-text-property start end
'font-lock-face face string
))
297 (setq colorized-substring
(substring string start end
)
299 ;; Eliminate unrecognized ANSI sequences.
300 (while (string-match ansi-color-drop-regexp colorized-substring
)
301 (setq colorized-substring
302 (replace-match "" nil nil colorized-substring
)))
303 (push colorized-substring result
)
304 ;; Create new face, by applying escape sequence parameters.
305 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
306 ;; if the rest of the string should have a face, put it there
308 (put-text-property start
(length string
) 'font-lock-face face string
))
309 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
311 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
312 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
313 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
))
314 (push (substring string start pos
) result
))
315 (push (substring string start
) result
))
316 (setq ansi-color-context
(if (or face fragment
) (list face fragment
))))
317 (apply 'concat
(nreverse result
))))
319 ;; Working with regions
321 (defvar ansi-color-context-region nil
322 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
323 This is a list of the form (FACES MARKER) or nil. FACES is a list of
324 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region' ended with, and
325 MARKER is a buffer position within an escape sequence or the last
326 position processed.")
327 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context-region
)
329 (defun ansi-color-filter-region (begin end
)
330 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from region BEGIN to END.
332 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
333 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position. This information will be
334 used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically,
335 it will override BEGIN, the start of the region. Set
336 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
337 (let ((end-marker (copy-marker end
))
338 (start (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
) begin
)))
341 ;; Delete unrecognized escape sequences.
342 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
345 ;; Delete SGR escape sequences.
346 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
348 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
349 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
350 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list nil
(match-beginning 0)))
351 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
)))))
353 (defun ansi-color-apply-on-region (begin end
)
354 "Translates SGR control sequences into overlays or extents.
355 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
357 SGR control sequences are applied by setting foreground and
358 background colors to the text between BEGIN and END using
359 overlays. The colors used are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector'
360 and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See `ansi-color-apply-sequence'
363 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
364 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position and current face. This
365 information will be used for the next call to
366 `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override BEGIN, the
367 start of the region and set the face with which to start. Set
368 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
369 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context-region
))
370 (start-marker (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
)
371 (copy-marker begin
)))
372 (end-marker (copy-marker end
))
374 ;; First, eliminate unrecognized ANSI control sequences.
376 (goto-char start-marker
)
377 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
380 (goto-char start-marker
)
381 ;; Find the next SGR sequence.
382 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
383 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
384 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
385 start-marker
(match-beginning 0)
387 ;; store escape sequence and new start position
388 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1)
389 start-marker
(copy-marker (match-end 0)))
390 ;; delete the escape sequence
392 ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape
394 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
395 ;; search for the possible start of a new escape sequence
396 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
398 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
399 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
400 start-marker
(point) face
)
401 ;; save face and point
402 (setq ansi-color-context-region
403 (list face
(copy-marker (match-beginning 0)))))
404 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
405 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
406 start-marker end-marker face
)
407 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(if face
(list face
)))))))
409 (defun ansi-color-apply-overlay-face (beg end face
)
410 "Make an overlay from BEG to END, and apply face FACE.
411 If FACE is nil, do nothing."
413 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
414 (ansi-color-make-extent beg end
)
417 ;; This function helps you look for overlapping overlays. This is
418 ;; useful in comint-buffers. Overlapping overlays should not happen!
419 ;; A possible cause for bugs are the markers. If you create an overlay
420 ;; up to the end of the region, then that end might coincide with the
421 ;; process-mark. As text is added BEFORE the process-mark, the overlay
422 ;; will keep growing. Therefore, as more overlays are created later on,
423 ;; there will be TWO OR MORE overlays covering the buffer at that point.
424 ;; This function helps you check your buffer for these situations.
425 ; (defun ansi-color-debug-overlays ()
427 ; (let ((pos (point-min)))
428 ; (while (< pos (point-max))
429 ; (if (<= 2 (length (overlays-at pos)))
432 ; (error "%d overlays at %d" (length (overlays-at pos)) pos))
433 ; (let (message-log-max)
434 ; (message "Reached %d." pos)))
435 ; (setq pos (next-overlay-change pos)))))
437 ;; Emacs/XEmacs compatibility layer
439 (defun ansi-color-make-face (property color
)
440 "Return a face with PROPERTY set to COLOR.
441 PROPERTY can be either symbol `foreground' or symbol `background'.
443 For Emacs, we just return the cons cell \(PROPERTY . COLOR).
444 For XEmacs, we create a temporary face and return it."
445 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
446 (let ((face (make-face (intern (concat color
"-" (symbol-name property
)))
447 "Temporary face created by ansi-color."
449 (set-face-property face property color
)
451 (cond ((eq property
'foreground
)
452 (cons 'foreground-color color
))
453 ((eq property
'background
)
454 (cons 'background-color color
))
456 (cons property color
)))))
458 (defun ansi-color-make-extent (from to
&optional object
)
459 "Make an extent for the range [FROM, TO) in OBJECT.
461 OBJECT defaults to the current buffer. XEmacs uses `make-extent', Emacs
462 uses `make-overlay'. XEmacs can use a buffer or a string for OBJECT,
463 Emacs requires OBJECT to be a buffer."
464 (if (fboundp 'make-extent
)
465 (make-extent from to object
)
466 ;; In Emacs, the overlay might end at the process-mark in comint
467 ;; buffers. In that case, new text will be inserted before the
468 ;; process-mark, ie. inside the overlay (using insert-before-marks).
469 ;; In order to avoid this, we use the `insert-behind-hooks' overlay
470 ;; property to make sure it works.
471 (let ((overlay (make-overlay from to object
)))
472 (overlay-put overlay
'modification-hooks
'(ansi-color-freeze-overlay))
475 (defun ansi-color-freeze-overlay (overlay is-after begin end
&optional len
)
476 "Prevent OVERLAY from being extended.
477 This function can be used for the `modification-hooks' overlay
479 ;; if stuff was inserted at the end of the overlay
482 (= end
(overlay-end overlay
)))
483 ;; reset the end of the overlay
484 (move-overlay overlay
(overlay-start overlay
) begin
)))
486 (defun ansi-color-set-extent-face (extent face
)
487 "Set the `face' property of EXTENT to FACE.
488 XEmacs uses `set-extent-face', Emacs uses `overlay-put'."
489 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
490 (set-extent-face extent face
)
491 (overlay-put extent
'face face
)))
495 (defun ansi-color-apply-sequence (escape-sequence faces
)
496 "Apply ESCAPE-SEQ to FACES and return the new list of faces.
498 ESCAPE-SEQ is an escape sequences parsed by `ansi-color-get-face'.
500 If the new faces start with the symbol `default', then the new
501 faces are returned. If the faces start with something else,
502 they are appended to the front of the FACES list, and the new
503 list of faces is returned.
505 If `ansi-color-get-face' returns nil, then we either got a
506 null-sequence, or we stumbled upon some garbage. In either
508 (let ((new-faces (ansi-color-get-face escape-sequence
)))
509 (cond ((null new-faces
)
511 ((eq (car new-faces
) 'default
)
514 ;; Like (append NEW-FACES FACES)
515 ;; but delete duplicates in FACES.
516 (let ((modified-faces (copy-sequence faces
)))
517 (dolist (face (nreverse new-faces
))
518 (setq modified-faces
(delete face modified-faces
))
519 (push face modified-faces
))
522 (defun ansi-color-make-color-map ()
523 "Creates a vector of face definitions and returns it.
525 The index into the vector is an ANSI code. See the documentation of
526 `ansi-color-map' for an example.
528 The face definitions are based upon the variables
529 `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
530 (let ((ansi-color-map (make-vector 50 nil
))
532 ;; miscellaneous attributes
534 (function (lambda (e)
535 (aset ansi-color-map index e
)
536 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
537 ansi-color-faces-vector
)
538 ;; foreground attributes
541 (function (lambda (e)
542 (aset ansi-color-map index
543 (ansi-color-make-face 'foreground
544 (if (consp e
) (car e
) e
)))
545 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
546 ansi-color-names-vector
)
547 ;; background attributes
550 (function (lambda (e)
551 (aset ansi-color-map index
552 (ansi-color-make-face 'background
553 (if (consp e
) (cdr e
) e
)))
554 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
555 ansi-color-names-vector
)
558 (defvar ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)
559 "A brand new color map suitable for `ansi-color-get-face'.
561 The value of this variable is usually constructed by
562 `ansi-color-make-color-map'. The values in the array are such that the
563 numbers included in an SGR control sequences point to the correct
564 foreground or background colors.
566 Example: The sequence \033[34m specifies a blue foreground. Therefore:
567 (aref ansi-color-map 34)
568 => \(foreground-color . \"blue\")")
570 (defun ansi-color-map-update (symbol value
)
571 "Update `ansi-color-map'.
573 Whenever the vectors used to construct `ansi-color-map' are changed,
574 this function is called. Therefore this function is listed as the :set
575 property of `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
576 (set-default symbol value
)
577 (setq ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)))
579 (defun ansi-color-get-face-1 (ansi-code)
580 "Get face definition from `ansi-color-map'.
581 ANSI-CODE is used as an index into the vector."
583 (aref ansi-color-map ansi-code
)
584 (args-out-of-range nil
)))
586 (defun ansi-color-get-face (escape-seq)
587 "Create a new face by applying all the parameters in ESCAPE-SEQ.
589 Should any of the parameters result in the default face (usually this is
590 the parameter 0), then the effect of all previous parameters is canceled.
592 ESCAPE-SEQ is a SGR control sequences such as \\033[34m. The parameter
593 34 is used by `ansi-color-get-face-1' to return a face definition."
596 (while (string-match ansi-color-parameter-regexp escape-seq i
)
597 (setq i
(match-end 0)
598 val
(ansi-color-get-face-1
599 (string-to-number (match-string 1 escape-seq
) 10)))
604 (unless (member val f
)
608 (provide 'ansi-color
)
610 ;;; ansi-color.el ends here