1 ;;; ansi-color.el --- translate ANSI escape sequences into faces -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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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-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm>.
44 ;; The "Graphic Rendition Combination Mode (GRCM)" implemented is
45 ;; "cumulative mode" as defined in section 7.2.8. Cumulative mode
46 ;; means that whenever possible, SGR control sequences are combined
47 ;; (ie. blue and bold).
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 8.3.117 of the
87 ECMA-48 standard (identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available
88 at <URL:http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm>
93 (defcustom ansi-color-faces-vector
94 [default bold default italic underline success warning error
]
95 "Faces used for SGR control sequences determining a face.
96 This vector holds the faces used for SGR control sequence parameters 0
99 Parameter Description Face used by default
104 4 underlined underline
105 5 slowly blinking success
106 6 rapidly blinking warning
107 7 negative image error
109 Note that the symbol `default' is special: It will not be combined
110 with the current face.
112 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
113 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'."
114 :type
'(vector face face face face face face face face
)
115 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
116 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
119 (defcustom ansi-color-names-vector
120 ["black" "red3" "green3" "yellow3" "blue2" "magenta3" "cyan3" "gray90"]
121 "Colors used for SGR control sequences determining a color.
122 This vector holds the colors used for SGR control sequences parameters
123 30 to 37 (foreground colors) and 40 to 47 (background colors).
135 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
136 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'.
138 Each element may also be a cons cell where the car and cdr specify the
139 foreground and background colors, respectively."
140 :type
'(vector (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 (choice color
(cons color color
)))
148 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
149 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
150 :version
"24.4" ; default colors copied from `xterm-standard-colors'
153 (defconst ansi-color-regexp
"\033\\[\\([0-9;]*m\\)"
154 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequences.")
156 (defconst ansi-color-drop-regexp
157 "\033\\[\\([ABCDsuK]\\|[12][JK]\\|=[0-9]+[hI]\\|[0-9;]*[Hf]\\)"
158 "Regexp that matches ANSI control sequences to silently drop.")
160 (defconst ansi-color-parameter-regexp
"\\([0-9]*\\)[m;]"
161 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequence parameters.")
164 ;; Convenience functions for comint modes (eg. shell-mode)
167 (defcustom ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
168 "Determines what to do with comint output.
170 If the symbol `filter', then filter all SGR control sequences.
171 If anything else (such as t), then translate SGR control sequences
172 into text properties.
174 In order for this to have any effect, `ansi-color-process-output' must
175 be in `comint-output-filter-functions'.
177 This can be used to enable colorized ls --color=yes output
178 in shell buffers. You set this variable by calling one of:
179 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on]
180 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off]
181 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter]"
182 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"Do nothing" nil
)
183 (const :tag
"Filter" filter
)
184 (const :tag
"Translate" t
))
188 (defvar ansi-color-apply-face-function
'ansi-color-apply-overlay-face
189 "Function for applying an Ansi Color face to text in a buffer.
190 This function should accept three arguments: BEG, END, and FACE,
191 and it should apply face FACE to the text between BEG and END.")
194 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on ()
195 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to t."
197 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
))
199 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off ()
200 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to nil."
202 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
204 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter ()
205 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to symbol `filter'."
207 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
))
210 (defun ansi-color-process-output (ignored)
211 "Maybe translate SGR control sequences of comint output into text properties.
213 Depending on variable `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' the comint output is
214 either not processed, SGR control sequences are filtered using
215 `ansi-color-filter-region', or SGR control sequences are translated into
216 text properties using `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
218 The comint output is assumed to lie between the marker
219 `comint-last-output-start' and the process-mark.
221 This is a good function to put in `comint-output-filter-functions'."
222 (let ((start-marker (if (and (markerp comint-last-output-start
)
223 (eq (marker-buffer comint-last-output-start
)
225 (marker-position comint-last-output-start
))
226 comint-last-output-start
228 (end-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
229 (cond ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
230 ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
)
231 (ansi-color-filter-region start-marker end-marker
))
233 (ansi-color-apply-on-region start-marker end-marker
)))))
235 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'ansi-color-unfontify-region
236 'font-lock-default-unfontify-region
"24.1")
238 ;; Working with strings
239 (defvar-local ansi-color-context nil
240 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply'.
241 This is a list of the form (CODES FRAGMENT) or nil. CODES
242 represents the state the last call to `ansi-color-apply' ended
243 with, currently a list of ansi codes, and FRAGMENT is a string
244 starting with an escape sequence, possibly the start of a new
247 (defun ansi-color-filter-apply (string)
248 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from STRING.
250 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
251 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences. This information
252 will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set
253 `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
255 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
256 (let ((start 0) end result
)
257 ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it
258 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
259 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
260 ansi-color-context nil
))
261 ;; find the next escape sequence
262 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
263 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start end
))
264 start
(match-end 0)))
265 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
267 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
268 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
269 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
)
270 result
(concat result
(substring string start pos
))))
271 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start
))))
272 (setq ansi-color-context
(if fragment
(list nil fragment
))))
275 (defun ansi-color--find-face (codes)
276 "Return the face corresponding to CODES."
279 (let ((face (ansi-color-get-face-1 (pop codes
))))
280 ;; In the (default underline) face, say, the value of the
281 ;; "underline" attribute of the `default' face wins.
282 (unless (eq face
'default
)
284 ;; Avoid some long-lived conses in the common case.
289 (defun ansi-color-apply (string)
290 "Translates SGR control sequences into text properties.
291 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
293 Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors
294 to STRING using text properties and returns the result. The colors used
295 are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'.
296 See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
298 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
299 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences and current ansi codes.
300 This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'.
301 Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
303 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
304 (let ((codes (car ansi-color-context
))
305 (start 0) end escape-sequence result
307 ;; If context was saved and is a string, prepend it.
308 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
309 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
310 ansi-color-context nil
))
311 ;; Find the next escape sequence.
312 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
313 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1 string
))
314 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
316 (put-text-property start end
'font-lock-face
(ansi-color--find-face codes
) string
))
317 (setq colorized-substring
(substring string start end
)
319 ;; Eliminate unrecognized ANSI sequences.
320 (while (string-match ansi-color-drop-regexp colorized-substring
)
321 (setq colorized-substring
322 (replace-match "" nil nil colorized-substring
)))
323 (push colorized-substring result
)
324 ;; Create new face, by applying escape sequence parameters.
325 (setq codes
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence codes
)))
326 ;; if the rest of the string should have a face, put it there
328 (put-text-property start
(length string
)
329 'font-lock-face
(ansi-color--find-face codes
) string
))
330 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
332 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
333 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
334 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
))
335 (push (substring string start pos
) result
))
336 (push (substring string start
) result
))
337 (setq ansi-color-context
(if (or codes fragment
) (list codes fragment
))))
338 (apply 'concat
(nreverse result
))))
340 ;; Working with regions
342 (defvar-local ansi-color-context-region nil
343 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
344 This is a list of the form (CODES MARKER) or nil. CODES
345 represents the state the last call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'
346 ended with, currently a list of ansi codes, and MARKER is a
347 buffer position within an escape sequence or the last position
350 (defun ansi-color-filter-region (begin end
)
351 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from region BEGIN to END.
353 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
354 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position. This information will be
355 used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically,
356 it will override BEGIN, the start of the region. Set
357 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
358 (let ((end-marker (copy-marker end
))
359 (start (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
) begin
)))
362 ;; Delete unrecognized escape sequences.
363 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
366 ;; Delete SGR escape sequences.
367 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
369 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
370 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
371 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list nil
(match-beginning 0)))
372 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
)))))
374 (defun ansi-color-apply-on-region (begin end
)
375 "Translates SGR control sequences into overlays or extents.
376 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
378 SGR control sequences are applied by calling the function
379 specified by `ansi-color-apply-face-function'. The default
380 function sets foreground and background colors to the text
381 between BEGIN and END, using overlays. The colors used are given
382 in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See
383 `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
385 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local
386 variable `ansi-color-context-region' to save position and current
387 ansi codes. This information will be used for the next call to
388 `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override
389 BEGIN, the start of the region and set the face with which to
390 start. Set `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want
392 (let ((codes (car ansi-color-context-region
))
393 (start-marker (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
)
394 (copy-marker begin
)))
395 (end-marker (copy-marker end
))
397 ;; First, eliminate unrecognized ANSI control sequences.
399 (goto-char start-marker
)
400 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
403 (goto-char start-marker
)
404 ;; Find the next SGR sequence.
405 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
406 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
407 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
408 start-marker
(match-beginning 0)
409 (ansi-color--find-face codes
))
410 ;; store escape sequence and new start position
411 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1)
412 start-marker
(copy-marker (match-end 0)))
413 ;; delete the escape sequence
415 ;; Update the list of ansi codes.
416 (setq codes
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence codes
)))
417 ;; search for the possible start of a new escape sequence
418 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
420 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
421 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
422 start-marker
(point) (ansi-color--find-face codes
))
423 ;; save codes and point
424 (setq ansi-color-context-region
425 (list codes
(copy-marker (match-beginning 0)))))
426 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
427 (funcall ansi-color-apply-face-function
428 start-marker end-marker
(ansi-color--find-face codes
))
429 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(if codes
(list codes
)))))))
431 (defun ansi-color-apply-overlay-face (beg end face
)
432 "Make an overlay from BEG to END, and apply face FACE.
433 If FACE is nil, do nothing."
435 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
436 (ansi-color-make-extent beg end
)
439 ;; This function helps you look for overlapping overlays. This is
440 ;; useful in comint-buffers. Overlapping overlays should not happen!
441 ;; A possible cause for bugs are the markers. If you create an overlay
442 ;; up to the end of the region, then that end might coincide with the
443 ;; process-mark. As text is added BEFORE the process-mark, the overlay
444 ;; will keep growing. Therefore, as more overlays are created later on,
445 ;; there will be TWO OR MORE overlays covering the buffer at that point.
446 ;; This function helps you check your buffer for these situations.
447 ; (defun ansi-color-debug-overlays ()
449 ; (let ((pos (point-min)))
450 ; (while (< pos (point-max))
451 ; (if (<= 2 (length (overlays-at pos)))
454 ; (error "%d overlays at %d" (length (overlays-at pos)) pos))
455 ; (let (message-log-max)
456 ; (message "Reached %d." pos)))
457 ; (setq pos (next-overlay-change pos)))))
459 ;; Emacs/XEmacs compatibility layer
461 (defun ansi-color-make-face (property color
)
462 "Return a face with PROPERTY set to COLOR.
463 PROPERTY can be either symbol `foreground' or symbol `background'.
465 For Emacs, we just return the cons cell (PROPERTY . COLOR).
466 For XEmacs, we create a temporary face and return it."
467 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
468 (let ((face (make-face (intern (concat color
"-" (symbol-name property
)))
469 "Temporary face created by ansi-color."
471 (set-face-property face property color
)
473 (cond ((eq property
'foreground
)
474 (cons 'foreground-color color
))
475 ((eq property
'background
)
476 (cons 'background-color color
))
478 (cons property color
)))))
480 (defun ansi-color-make-extent (from to
&optional object
)
481 "Make an extent for the range [FROM, TO) in OBJECT.
483 OBJECT defaults to the current buffer. XEmacs uses `make-extent', Emacs
484 uses `make-overlay'. XEmacs can use a buffer or a string for OBJECT,
485 Emacs requires OBJECT to be a buffer."
486 (if (fboundp 'make-extent
)
487 (make-extent from to object
)
488 ;; In Emacs, the overlay might end at the process-mark in comint
489 ;; buffers. In that case, new text will be inserted before the
490 ;; process-mark, ie. inside the overlay (using insert-before-marks).
491 ;; In order to avoid this, we use the `insert-behind-hooks' overlay
492 ;; property to make sure it works.
493 (let ((overlay (make-overlay from to object
)))
494 (overlay-put overlay
'modification-hooks
'(ansi-color-freeze-overlay))
497 (defun ansi-color-freeze-overlay (overlay is-after begin end
&optional len
)
498 "Prevent OVERLAY from being extended.
499 This function can be used for the `modification-hooks' overlay
501 ;; if stuff was inserted at the end of the overlay
504 (= end
(overlay-end overlay
)))
505 ;; reset the end of the overlay
506 (move-overlay overlay
(overlay-start overlay
) begin
)))
508 (defun ansi-color-set-extent-face (extent face
)
509 "Set the `face' property of EXTENT to FACE.
510 XEmacs uses `set-extent-face', Emacs uses `overlay-put'."
511 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
512 (set-extent-face extent face
)
513 (overlay-put extent
'face face
)))
517 (defsubst ansi-color-parse-sequence
(escape-seq)
518 "Return the list of all the parameters in ESCAPE-SEQ.
520 ESCAPE-SEQ is a SGR control sequences such as \\033[34m. The parameter
521 34 is used by `ansi-color-get-face-1' to return a face definition.
523 Returns nil only if there's no match for `ansi-color-parameter-regexp'."
526 (while (string-match ansi-color-parameter-regexp escape-seq i
)
527 (setq i
(match-end 0)
528 val
(string-to-number (match-string 1 escape-seq
) 10))
529 ;; It so happens that (string-to-number "") => 0.
533 (defun ansi-color-apply-sequence (escape-sequence codes
)
534 "Apply ESCAPE-SEQUENCE to CODES and return the new list of codes.
536 ESCAPE-SEQUENCE is an escape sequence parsed by
537 `ansi-color-parse-sequence'.
539 For each new code, the following happens: if it is 1-7, add it to
540 the list of codes; if it is 21-25 or 27, delete appropriate
541 parameters from the list of codes; if it is 30-37 resp. 39, the
542 foreground color code is replaced or added resp. deleted; if it
543 is 40-47 resp. 49, the background color code is replaced or added
544 resp. deleted; any other code is discarded together with the old
545 codes. Finally, the so changed list of codes is returned."
546 (let ((new-codes (ansi-color-parse-sequence escape-sequence
)))
548 (let* ((new (pop new-codes
))
552 (0 (unless (memq new
'(0 8 9))
553 (cons new
(remq new codes
))))
554 (2 (unless (memq new
'(20 26 28 29))
555 ;; The standard says `21 doubly underlined' while
556 ;; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code claims
557 ;; `21 Bright/Bold: off or Underline: Double'.
558 (remq (- new
20) (pcase new
562 ((or 3 4) (let ((r (mod new
10)))
565 (while (and codes
(/= q
(/ (car codes
) 10)))
566 (push (pop codes
) beg
))
567 (setq codes
(nconc (nreverse beg
) (cdr codes
)))
570 (cons new codes
))))))
574 (defun ansi-color-make-color-map ()
575 "Creates a vector of face definitions and returns it.
577 The index into the vector is an ANSI code. See the documentation of
578 `ansi-color-map' for an example.
580 The face definitions are based upon the variables
581 `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
582 (let ((map (make-vector 50 nil
))
584 ;; miscellaneous attributes
586 (function (lambda (e)
588 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
589 ansi-color-faces-vector
)
590 ;; foreground attributes
593 (function (lambda (e)
595 (ansi-color-make-face 'foreground
596 (if (consp e
) (car e
) e
)))
597 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
598 ansi-color-names-vector
)
599 ;; background attributes
602 (function (lambda (e)
604 (ansi-color-make-face 'background
605 (if (consp e
) (cdr e
) e
)))
606 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
607 ansi-color-names-vector
)
610 (defvar ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)
611 "A brand new color map suitable for `ansi-color-get-face'.
613 The value of this variable is usually constructed by
614 `ansi-color-make-color-map'. The values in the array are such that the
615 numbers included in an SGR control sequences point to the correct
616 foreground or background colors.
618 Example: The sequence \\033[34m specifies a blue foreground. Therefore:
619 (aref ansi-color-map 34)
620 => (foreground-color . \"blue\")")
622 (defun ansi-color-map-update (symbol value
)
623 "Update `ansi-color-map'.
625 Whenever the vectors used to construct `ansi-color-map' are changed,
626 this function is called. Therefore this function is listed as the :set
627 property of `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
628 (set-default symbol value
)
629 (setq ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)))
631 (defun ansi-color-get-face-1 (ansi-code)
632 "Get face definition from `ansi-color-map'.
633 ANSI-CODE is used as an index into the vector."
635 (aref ansi-color-map ansi-code
)
636 (args-out-of-range nil
)))
638 (provide 'ansi-color
)
640 ;;; ansi-color.el ends here