1 ;;; ansi-color.el --- translate ANSI escape sequences into faces
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28 ;; This file provides a function that takes a string or a region
29 ;; containing Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences (formerly
30 ;; known as ANSI escape sequences) and tries to translate these into
33 ;; This allows you to run ls --color=yes in shell-mode. It is now
34 ;; enabled by default; to disable it, set ansi-color-for-comint-mode
37 ;; Note that starting your shell from within Emacs might set the TERM
38 ;; environment variable. The new setting might disable the output of
39 ;; SGR control sequences. Using ls --color=yes forces ls to produce
42 ;; SGR control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the ECMA-48
43 ;; standard (identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available as a
44 ;; PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>. The
45 ;; "Graphic Rendition Combination Mode (GRCM)" implemented is
46 ;; "cumulative mode" as defined in section 7.2.8. Cumulative mode means
47 ;; that whenever possible, SGR control sequences are combined (ie. blue
50 ;; The basic functions are:
52 ;; `ansi-color-apply' to colorize a string containing SGR control
55 ;; `ansi-color-filter-apply' to filter SGR control sequences from a
58 ;; `ansi-color-apply-on-region' to colorize a region containing SGR
61 ;; `ansi-color-filter-region' to filter SGR control sequences from a
66 ;; Georges Brun-Cottan <gbruncot@emc.com> for improving ansi-color.el
67 ;; substantially by adding the code needed to cope with arbitrary chunks
68 ;; of output and the filter functions.
70 ;; Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> for pointing me to ECMA-48.
72 ;; Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> explaing obscure font-lock stuff and
79 (defvar comint-last-output-start
)
83 (defgroup ansi-colors nil
84 "Translating SGR control sequences to faces.
85 This translation effectively colorizes strings and regions based upon
86 SGR control sequences embedded in the text. SGR (Select Graphic
87 Rendition) control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the
88 ECMA-48 standard \(identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available
89 as a PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>."
93 (defcustom ansi-color-faces-vector
94 [default bold default italic underline bold bold-italic modeline
]
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 bold
106 6 rapidly blinking bold-italic
107 7 negative image modeline
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" "red" "green" "yellow" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "white"]
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'."
137 :type
'(vector string string string string string string string string
)
138 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
139 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
142 (defconst ansi-color-regexp
"\033\\[\\([0-9;]*m\\)"
143 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequences.")
145 (defconst ansi-color-drop-regexp
146 "\033\\[\\([ABCDsuK]\\|2J\\|=[0-9]+[hI]\\|[0-9;]*[Hf]\\)"
147 "Regexp that matches ANSI control sequences to silently drop.")
149 (defconst ansi-color-parameter-regexp
"\\([0-9]*\\)[m;]"
150 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequence parameters.")
153 ;; Convenience functions for comint modes (eg. shell-mode)
156 (defcustom ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
157 "Determines what to do with comint output.
159 If the symbol `filter', then filter all SGR control sequences.
160 If anything else (such as t), then translate SGR control sequences
161 into text properties.
163 In order for this to have any effect, `ansi-color-process-output' must
164 be in `comint-output-filter-functions'.
166 This can be used to enable colorized ls --color=yes output
167 in shell buffers. You set this variable by calling one of:
168 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on]
169 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off]
170 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter]"
171 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"Do nothing" nil
)
172 (const :tag
"Filter" filter
)
173 (const :tag
"Translate" t
))
178 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on ()
179 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to t."
181 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
))
183 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off ()
184 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to nil."
186 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
188 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter ()
189 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to symbol `filter'."
191 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
))
194 (defun ansi-color-process-output (ignored)
195 "Maybe translate SGR control sequences of comint output into text properties.
197 Depending on variable `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' the comint output is
198 either not processed, SGR control sequences are filtered using
199 `ansi-color-filter-region', or SGR control sequences are translated into
200 text properties using `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
202 The comint output is assumed to lie between the marker
203 `comint-last-output-start' and the process-mark.
205 This is a good function to put in `comint-output-filter-functions'."
206 (let ((start-marker (or comint-last-output-start
208 (end-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
209 (cond ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
210 ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
)
211 (ansi-color-filter-region start-marker end-marker
))
213 (ansi-color-apply-on-region start-marker end-marker
)))))
215 (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
216 'ansi-color-process-output
)
219 ;; Alternative font-lock-unfontify-region-function for Emacs only
221 (defun ansi-color-unfontify-region (beg end
&rest xemacs-stuff
)
222 "Replacement function for `font-lock-default-unfontify-region'.
224 As text properties are implemented using extents in XEmacs, this
225 function is probably not needed. In Emacs, however, things are a bit
226 different: When font-lock is active in a buffer, you cannot simply add
227 face text properties to the buffer. Font-lock will remove the face
228 text property using `font-lock-unfontify-region-function'. If you want
229 to insert the strings returned by `ansi-color-apply' into such buffers,
230 you must set `font-lock-unfontify-region-function' to
231 `ansi-color-unfontify-region'. This function will not remove all face
232 text properties unconditionally. It will keep the face text properties
233 if the property `ansi-color' is set.
235 The region from BEG to END is unfontified. XEMACS-STUFF is ignored.
237 A possible way to install this would be:
239 \(add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook
240 \(function (lambda ()
241 \(setq font-lock-unfontify-region-function
242 'ansi-color-unfontify-region))))"
243 ;; Simplified now that font-lock-unfontify-region uses save-buffer-state.
244 (when (boundp 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords
)
245 (remove-text-properties beg end
'(syntax-table nil
)))
246 ;; instead of just using (remove-text-properties beg end '(face
247 ;; nil)), we find regions with a non-nil face test-property, skip
248 ;; positions with the ansi-color property set, and remove the
249 ;; remaining face test-properties.
250 (while (setq beg
(text-property-not-all beg end
'face nil
))
251 (setq beg
(or (text-property-not-all beg end
'ansi-color t
) end
))
252 (when (get-text-property beg
'face
)
253 (let ((end-face (or (text-property-any beg end
'face nil
)
255 (remove-text-properties beg end-face
'(face nil
))
256 (setq beg end-face
)))))
258 ;; Working with strings
260 (defvar ansi-color-context nil
261 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply'.
262 This is a list of the form (FACES FRAGMENT) or nil. FACES is a list of
263 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply' ended with, and FRAGMENT is a
264 string starting with an escape sequence, possibly the start of a new
266 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context
)
268 (defun ansi-color-filter-apply (string)
269 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from STRING.
271 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
272 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences. This information
273 will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set
274 `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
276 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
277 (let ((start 0) end result
)
278 ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it
279 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
280 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
281 ansi-color-context nil
))
282 ;; find the next escape sequence
283 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
284 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start end
))
285 start
(match-end 0)))
286 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
288 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
289 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
290 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
)
291 result
(concat result
(substring string start pos
))))
292 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start
))))
294 (setq ansi-color-context
(list nil fragment
))
295 (setq ansi-color-context nil
)))
298 (defun ansi-color-apply (string)
299 "Translates SGR control sequences into text properties.
300 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
302 Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors
303 to STRING using text properties and returns the result. The colors used
304 are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'.
305 See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
307 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
308 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences and current face.
309 This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'.
310 Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
312 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'.
314 You cannot insert the strings returned into buffers using font-lock.
315 See `ansi-color-unfontify-region' for a way around this."
316 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context
))
317 (start 0) end escape-sequence result
319 ;; If context was saved and is a string, prepend it.
320 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
321 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
322 ansi-color-context nil
))
323 ;; Find the next escape sequence.
324 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
325 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1 string
))
326 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
328 (put-text-property start end
'ansi-color t string
)
329 (put-text-property start end
'face face string
))
330 (setq colorized-substring
(substring string start end
)
332 ;; Eliminate unrecognized ANSI sequences.
333 (while (string-match ansi-color-drop-regexp colorized-substring
)
334 (setq colorized-substring
335 (replace-match "" nil nil colorized-substring
)))
336 (push colorized-substring result
)
337 ;; Create new face, by applying escape sequence parameters.
338 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
339 ;; if the rest of the string should have a face, put it there
341 (put-text-property start
(length string
) 'ansi-color t string
)
342 (put-text-property start
(length string
) 'face face string
))
343 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
345 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
346 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
347 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
))
348 (push (substring string start pos
) result
))
349 (push (substring string start
) result
))
350 (if (or face fragment
)
351 (setq ansi-color-context
(list face fragment
))
352 (setq ansi-color-context nil
)))
353 (apply 'concat
(nreverse result
))))
355 ;; Working with regions
357 (defvar ansi-color-context-region nil
358 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
359 This is a list of the form (FACES MARKER) or nil. FACES is a list of
360 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region' ended with, and
361 MARKER is a buffer position within an escape sequence or the last
362 position processed.")
363 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context-region
)
365 (defun ansi-color-filter-region (begin end
)
366 "Filter out all ANSI control sequences from region BEGIN to END.
368 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
369 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position. This information will be
370 used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically,
371 it will override BEGIN, the start of the region. Set
372 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
373 (let ((end-marker (copy-marker end
))
374 (start (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
) begin
)))
377 ;; Delete unrecognized escape sequences.
378 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
381 ;; Delete SGR escape sequences.
382 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
384 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
385 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
386 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list nil
(match-beginning 0)))
387 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
)))))
389 (defun ansi-color-apply-on-region (begin end
)
390 "Translates SGR control sequences into overlays or extents.
391 Delete all other control sequences without processing them.
393 SGR control sequences are applied by setting foreground and
394 background colors to the text between BEGIN and END using
395 overlays. The colors used are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector'
396 and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See `ansi-color-apply-sequence'
399 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
400 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position and current face. This
401 information will be used for the next call to
402 `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override BEGIN, the
403 start of the region and set the face with which to start. Set
404 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
405 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context-region
))
406 (start-marker (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
)
407 (copy-marker begin
)))
408 (end-marker (copy-marker end
))
410 ;; First, eliminate unrecognized ANSI control sequences.
412 (goto-char start-marker
)
413 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-drop-regexp end-marker t
)
416 (goto-char start-marker
)
417 ;; Find the next SGR sequence.
418 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
419 ;; Colorize the old block from start to end using old face.
421 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
422 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker
(match-beginning 0))
424 ;; store escape sequence and new start position
425 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1)
426 start-marker
(copy-marker (match-end 0)))
427 ;; delete the escape sequence
429 ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape
431 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
432 ;; search for the possible start of a new escape sequence
433 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
435 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
437 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
438 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker
(point))
440 ;; save face and point
441 (setq ansi-color-context-region
442 (list face
(copy-marker (match-beginning 0)))))
443 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
446 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
447 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker end-marker
)
449 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list face
)))
451 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
))))))
453 ;; This function helps you look for overlapping overlays. This is
454 ;; usefull in comint-buffers. Overlapping overlays should not happen!
455 ;; A possible cause for bugs are the markers. If you create an overlay
456 ;; up to the end of the region, then that end might coincide with the
457 ;; process-mark. As text is added BEFORE the process-mark, the overlay
458 ;; will keep growing. Therefore, as more overlays are created later on,
459 ;; there will be TWO OR MORE overlays covering the buffer at that point.
460 ;; This function helps you check your buffer for these situations.
461 ; (defun ansi-color-debug-overlays ()
463 ; (let ((pos (point-min)))
464 ; (while (< pos (point-max))
465 ; (if (<= 2 (length (overlays-at pos)))
468 ; (error "%d overlays at %d" (length (overlays-at pos)) pos))
469 ; (let (message-log-max)
470 ; (message "Reached %d." pos)))
471 ; (setq pos (next-overlay-change pos)))))
473 ;; Emacs/XEmacs compatibility layer
475 (defun ansi-color-make-face (property color
)
476 "Return a face with PROPERTY set to COLOR.
477 PROPERTY can be either symbol `foreground' or symbol `background'.
479 For Emacs, we just return the cons cell \(PROPERTY . COLOR).
480 For XEmacs, we create a temporary face and return it."
481 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
482 (let ((face (make-face (intern (concat color
"-" (symbol-name property
)))
483 "Temporary face created by ansi-color."
485 (set-face-property face property color
)
487 (cond ((eq property
'foreground
)
488 (cons 'foreground-color color
))
489 ((eq property
'background
)
490 (cons 'background-color color
))
492 (cons property color
)))))
494 (defun ansi-color-make-extent (from to
&optional object
)
495 "Make an extent for the range [FROM, TO) in OBJECT.
497 OBJECT defaults to the current buffer. XEmacs uses `make-extent', Emacs
498 uses `make-overlay'. XEmacs can use a buffer or a string for OBJECT,
499 Emacs requires OBJECT to be a buffer."
500 (if (fboundp 'make-extent
)
501 (make-extent from to object
)
502 ;; In Emacs, the overlay might end at the process-mark in comint
503 ;; buffers. In that case, new text will be inserted before the
504 ;; process-mark, ie. inside the overlay (using insert-before-marks).
505 ;; In order to avoid this, we use the `insert-behind-hooks' overlay
506 ;; property to make sure it works.
507 (let ((overlay (make-overlay from to object
)))
508 (overlay-put overlay
'modification-hooks
'(ansi-color-freeze-overlay))
511 (defun ansi-color-freeze-overlay (overlay is-after begin end
&optional len
)
512 "Prevent OVERLAY from being extended.
513 This function can be used for the `modification-hooks' overlay
515 ;; if stuff was inserted at the end of the overlay
518 (= end
(overlay-end overlay
)))
519 ;; reset the end of the overlay
520 (move-overlay overlay
(overlay-start overlay
) begin
)))
522 (defun ansi-color-set-extent-face (extent face
)
523 "Set the `face' property of EXTENT to FACE.
524 XEmacs uses `set-extent-face', Emacs uses `overlay-put'."
525 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
526 (set-extent-face extent face
)
527 (overlay-put extent
'face face
)))
531 (defun ansi-color-apply-sequence (escape-sequence faces
)
532 "Apply ESCAPE-SEQ to FACES and return the new list of faces.
534 ESCAPE-SEQ is an escape sequences parsed by `ansi-color-get-face'.
536 If the new faces start with the symbol `default', then the new
537 faces are returned. If the faces start with something else,
538 they are appended to the front of the FACES list, and the new
539 list of faces is returned.
541 If `ansi-color-get-face' returns nil, then we either got a
542 null-sequence, or we stumbled upon some garbage. In either
544 (let ((new-faces (ansi-color-get-face escape-sequence
)))
545 (cond ((null new-faces
)
547 ((eq (car new-faces
) 'default
)
550 ;; Like (append NEW-FACES FACES)
551 ;; but delete duplicates in FACES.
552 (let ((modified-faces (copy-sequence faces
)))
553 (dolist (face (nreverse new-faces
))
554 (setq modified-faces
(delete face modified-faces
))
555 (push face modified-faces
))
558 (defun ansi-color-make-color-map ()
559 "Creates a vector of face definitions and returns it.
561 The index into the vector is an ANSI code. See the documentation of
562 `ansi-color-map' for an example.
564 The face definitions are based upon the variables
565 `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
566 (let ((ansi-color-map (make-vector 50 nil
))
568 ;; miscellaneous attributes
570 (function (lambda (e)
571 (aset ansi-color-map index e
)
572 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
573 ansi-color-faces-vector
)
574 ;; foreground attributes
577 (function (lambda (e)
578 (aset ansi-color-map index
579 (ansi-color-make-face 'foreground e
))
580 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
581 ansi-color-names-vector
)
582 ;; background attributes
585 (function (lambda (e)
586 (aset ansi-color-map index
587 (ansi-color-make-face 'background e
))
588 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
589 ansi-color-names-vector
)
592 (defvar ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)
593 "A brand new color map suitable for `ansi-color-get-face'.
595 The value of this variable is usually constructed by
596 `ansi-color-make-color-map'. The values in the array are such that the
597 numbers included in an SGR control sequences point to the correct
598 foreground or background colors.
600 Example: The sequence \033[34m specifies a blue foreground. Therefore:
601 (aref ansi-color-map 34)
602 => \(foreground-color . \"blue\")")
604 (defun ansi-color-map-update (symbol value
)
605 "Update `ansi-color-map'.
607 Whenever the vectors used to construct `ansi-color-map' are changed,
608 this function is called. Therefore this function is listed as the :set
609 property of `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
610 (set-default symbol value
)
611 (setq ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)))
613 (defun ansi-color-get-face-1 (ansi-code)
614 "Get face definition from `ansi-color-map'.
615 ANSI-CODE is used as an index into the vector."
617 (aref ansi-color-map ansi-code
)
618 (args-out-of-range nil
)))
620 (defun ansi-color-get-face (escape-seq)
621 "Create a new face by applying all the parameters in ESCAPE-SEQ.
623 Should any of the parameters result in the default face (usually this is
624 the parameter 0), then the effect of all previous parameters is cancelled.
626 ESCAPE-SEQ is a SGR control sequences such as \\033[34m. The parameter
627 34 is used by `ansi-color-get-face-1' to return a face definition."
630 (while (string-match ansi-color-parameter-regexp escape-seq i
)
631 (setq i
(match-end 0)
632 val
(ansi-color-get-face-1
633 (string-to-number (match-string 1 escape-seq
) 10)))
638 (unless (member val f
)
642 (provide 'ansi-color
)
644 ;; arch-tag: 00726118-9432-44fd-b72d-d2af7591c99c
645 ;;; ansi-color.el ends here