1 ;;; ansi-color.el --- translate ANSI escape sequences into faces
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6 ;; Author: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
7 ;; Maintainer: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
9 ;; Keywords: comm processes terminals services
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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. In order to
34 ;; test this, proceed as follows:
36 ;; 1. start a shell: M-x shell
37 ;; 2. load this file: M-x load-library RET ansi-color RET
38 ;; 3. activate ansi-color: M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on
39 ;; 4. test ls --color=yes in the *shell* buffer
41 ;; Note that starting your shell from within Emacs might set the TERM
42 ;; environment variable. The new setting might disable the output of
43 ;; SGR control sequences. Using ls --color=yes forces ls to produce
46 ;; If you decide you like this, add the following to your .emacs file:
48 ;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
50 ;; SGR control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the ECMA-48
51 ;; standard (identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available as a
52 ;; PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>. The
53 ;; "Graphic Rendition Combination Mode (GRCM)" implemented is
54 ;; "cumulative mode" as defined in section 7.2.8. Cumulative mode means
55 ;; that whenever possible, SGR control sequences are combined (ie. blue
58 ;; The basic functions are:
60 ;; `ansi-color-apply' to colorize a string containing SGR control
63 ;; `ansi-color-filter-apply' to filter SGR control sequences from a
66 ;; `ansi-color-apply-on-region' to colorize a region containing SGR
69 ;; `ansi-color-filter-region' to filter SGR control sequences from a
74 ;; Georges Brun-Cottan <gbruncot@emc.com> for improving ansi-color.el
75 ;; substantially by adding the code needed to cope with arbitrary chunks
76 ;; of output and the filter functions.
78 ;; Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> for pointing me to ECMA-48.
80 ;; Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> explaing obscure font-lock stuff and
87 (defvar comint-last-output-start
)
91 (defgroup ansi-colors nil
92 "Translating SGR control sequences to faces.
93 This translation effectively colorizes strings and regions based upon
94 SGR control sequences embedded in the text. SGR (Select Graphic
95 Rendition) control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the
96 ECMA-48 standard \(identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available
97 as a PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>."
101 (defcustom ansi-color-faces-vector
102 [default bold default italic underline bold bold-italic modeline
]
103 "Faces used for SGR control sequences determining a face.
104 This vector holds the faces used for SGR control sequence parameters 0
107 Parameter Description Face used by default
112 4 underlined underline
113 5 slowly blinking bold
114 6 rapidly blinking bold-italic
115 7 negative image modeline
117 Note that the symbol `default' is special: It will not be combined
118 with the current face.
120 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
121 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'."
122 :type
'(vector face face face face face face face face
)
123 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
124 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
127 (defcustom ansi-color-names-vector
128 ["black" "red" "green" "yellow" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "white"]
129 "Colors used for SGR control sequences determining a color.
130 This vector holds the colors used for SGR control sequences parameters
131 30 to 37 \(foreground colors) and 40 to 47 (background colors).
143 This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color
144 map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'."
145 :type
'(vector string string string string string string string string
)
146 :set
'ansi-color-map-update
147 :initialize
'custom-initialize-default
150 (defconst ansi-color-regexp
"\033\\[\\([0-9;]*m\\)"
151 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequences.")
153 (defconst ansi-color-parameter-regexp
"\\([0-9]*\\)[m;]"
154 "Regexp that matches SGR control sequence parameters.")
157 ;; Convenience functions for comint modes (eg. shell-mode)
160 (defcustom ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
161 "Determines what to do with comint output.
163 If the symbol `filter', then filter all SGR control sequences.
164 If anything else (such as t), then translate SGR control sequences
165 into text-properties.
167 In order for this to have any effect, `ansi-color-process-output' must
168 be in `comint-output-filter-functions'.
170 This can be used to enable colorized ls --color=yes output
171 in shell buffers. You set this variable by calling one of:
172 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on]
173 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off]
174 \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter]"
175 :type
'(choice (const :tag
"Do nothing" nil
)
176 (const :tag
"Filter" filter
)
177 (const :tag
"Translate" t
))
181 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on ()
182 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to t."
184 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t
))
186 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off ()
187 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to nil."
189 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
191 (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter ()
192 "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to symbol `filter'."
194 (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
))
197 (defun ansi-color-process-output (ignored)
198 "Maybe translate SGR control sequences of comint output into text-properties.
200 Depending on variable `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' the comint output is
201 either not processed, SGR control sequences are filtered using
202 `ansi-color-filter-region', or SGR control sequences are translated into
203 text-properties using `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
205 The comint output is assumed to lie between the marker
206 `comint-last-output-start' and the process-mark.
208 This is a good function to put in `comint-output-filter-functions'."
209 (let ((start-marker (or comint-last-output-start
211 (end-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))
212 (cond ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil
))
213 ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode
'filter
)
214 (ansi-color-filter-region start-marker end-marker
))
216 (ansi-color-apply-on-region start-marker end-marker
)))))
218 (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
219 'ansi-color-process-output
)
222 ;; Alternative font-lock-unfontify-region-function for Emacs only
224 (defun ansi-color-unfontify-region (beg end
&rest xemacs-stuff
)
225 "Replacement function for `font-lock-default-unfontify-region'.
227 As text-properties are implemented using extents in XEmacs, this
228 function is probably not needed. In Emacs, however, things are a bit
229 different: When font-lock is active in a buffer, you cannot simply add
230 face text-properties to the buffer. Font-lock will remove the face
231 text-property using `font-lock-unfontify-region-function'. If you want
232 to insert the strings returned by `ansi-color-apply' into such buffers,
233 you must set `font-lock-unfontify-region-function' to
234 `ansi-color-unfontify-region'. This function will not remove all face
235 text-properties unconditionally. It will keep the face text-properties
236 if the property `ansi-color' is set.
238 The region from BEG to END is unfontified. XEMACS-STUFF is ignored.
240 A possible way to install this would be:
242 \(add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook
243 \(function (lambda ()
244 \(setq font-lock-unfontify-region-function
245 'ansi-color-unfontify-region))))"
246 ;; Simplified now that font-lock-unfontify-region uses save-buffer-state.
247 (when (boundp 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords
)
248 (remove-text-properties beg end
'(syntax-table nil
)))
249 ;; instead of just using (remove-text-properties beg end '(face
250 ;; nil)), we find regions with a non-nil face test-property, skip
251 ;; positions with the ansi-color property set, and remove the
252 ;; remaining face test-properties.
253 (while (setq beg
(text-property-not-all beg end
'face nil
))
254 (setq beg
(or (text-property-not-all beg end
'ansi-color t
) end
))
255 (when (get-text-property beg
'face
)
256 (let ((end-face (or (text-property-any beg end
'face nil
)
258 (remove-text-properties beg end-face
'(face nil
))
259 (setq beg end-face
)))))
261 ;; Working with strings
263 (defvar ansi-color-context nil
264 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply'.
265 This is a list of the form (FACES FRAGMENT) or nil. FACES is a list of
266 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply' ended with, and FRAGMENT is a
267 string starting with an escape sequence, possibly the start of a new
269 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context
)
271 (defun ansi-color-filter-apply (string)
272 "Filter out all SGR control sequences from STRING.
274 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
275 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences. This information
276 will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set
277 `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
279 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'."
280 (let ((start 0) end result
)
281 ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it
282 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
283 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
284 ansi-color-context nil
))
285 ;; find the next escape sequence
286 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
287 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start end
))
288 start
(match-end 0)))
289 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
291 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
292 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
293 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
)
294 result
(concat result
(substring string start pos
))))
295 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start
))))
297 (setq ansi-color-context
(list nil fragment
))
298 (setq ansi-color-context nil
)))
301 (defun ansi-color-apply (string)
302 "Translates SGR control sequences into text-properties.
304 Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors
305 to STRING using text-properties and returns the result. The colors used
306 are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'.
307 See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
309 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
310 `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences and current face.
311 This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'.
312 Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this.
314 This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'.
316 You cannot insert the strings returned into buffers using font-lock.
317 See `ansi-color-unfontify-region' for a way around this."
318 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context
))
319 (start 0) end escape-sequence result
)
320 ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it
321 (if (cadr ansi-color-context
)
322 (setq string
(concat (cadr ansi-color-context
) string
)
323 ansi-color-context nil
))
324 ;; find the next escape sequence
325 (while (setq end
(string-match ansi-color-regexp string start
))
326 ;; store escape sequence
327 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1 string
))
328 ;; colorize the old block from start to end using old face
330 (put-text-property start end
'ansi-color t string
)
331 (put-text-property start end
'face face string
))
332 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start end
))
334 ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape
336 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
337 ;; if the rest of the string should have a face, put it there
339 (put-text-property start
(length string
) 'ansi-color t string
)
340 (put-text-property start
(length string
) 'face face string
))
341 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
343 (if (string-match "\033" string start
)
344 (let ((pos (match-beginning 0)))
345 (setq fragment
(substring string pos
)
346 result
(concat result
(substring string start pos
))))
347 (setq result
(concat result
(substring string start
))))
348 (if (or face fragment
)
349 (setq ansi-color-context
(list face fragment
))
350 (setq ansi-color-context nil
)))
353 ;; Working with regions
355 (defvar ansi-color-context-region nil
356 "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'.
357 This is a list of the form (FACES MARKER) or nil. FACES is a list of
358 faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region' ended with, and
359 MARKER is a buffer position within an escape sequence or the last
360 position processed.")
361 (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context-region
)
363 (defun ansi-color-filter-region (begin end
)
364 "Filter out all SGR control sequences from region BEGIN to END.
366 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
367 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position. This information will be
368 used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically,
369 it will override BEGIN, the start of the region. Set
370 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
371 (let ((end-marker (copy-marker end
))
372 (start (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
) begin
)))
375 ;; find the next escape sequence
376 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
377 ;; delete the escape sequence
379 ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result
380 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
381 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list nil
(match-beginning 0)))
382 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
)))))
384 (defun ansi-color-apply-on-region (begin end
)
385 "Translates SGR control sequences into overlays or extents.
387 Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors
388 to text in region between BEGIN and END using extents or overlays.
389 Emacs will use overlays, XEmacs will use extents. The colors used are
390 given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See
391 function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details.
393 Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable
394 `ansi-color-context-region' to save position and current face. This
395 information will be used for the next call to
396 `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override BEGIN, the
397 start of the region and set the face with which to start. Set
398 `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this."
399 (let ((face (car ansi-color-context-region
))
400 (start-marker (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region
)
401 (copy-marker begin
)))
402 (end-marker (copy-marker end
))
405 (goto-char start-marker
)
406 ;; find the next escape sequence
407 (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t
)
408 ;; colorize the old block from start to end using old face
410 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
411 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker
(match-beginning 0))
413 ;; store escape sequence and new start position
414 (setq escape-sequence
(match-string 1)
415 start-marker
(copy-marker (match-end 0)))
416 ;; delete the escape sequence
418 ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape
420 (setq face
(ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face
)))
421 ;; search for the possible start of a new escape sequence
422 (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t
)
424 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
426 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
427 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker
(point))
429 ;; save face and point
430 (setq ansi-color-context-region
431 (list face
(copy-marker (match-beginning 0)))))
432 ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there
435 (ansi-color-set-extent-face
436 (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker end-marker
)
438 (setq ansi-color-context-region
(list face
)))
440 (setq ansi-color-context-region nil
))))))
442 ;; This function helps you look for overlapping overlays. This is
443 ;; usefull in comint-buffers. Overlapping overlays should not happen!
444 ;; A possible cause for bugs are the markers. If you create an overlay
445 ;; up to the end of the region, then that end might coincide with the
446 ;; process-mark. As text is added BEFORE the process-mark, the overlay
447 ;; will keep growing. Therefore, as more overlays are created later on,
448 ;; there will be TWO OR MORE overlays covering the buffer at that point.
449 ;; This function helps you check your buffer for these situations.
450 ; (defun ansi-color-debug-overlays ()
452 ; (let ((pos (point-min)))
453 ; (while (< pos (point-max))
454 ; (if (<= 2 (length (overlays-at pos)))
457 ; (error "%d overlays at %d" (length (overlays-at pos)) pos))
458 ; (let (message-log-max)
459 ; (message "Reached %d." pos)))
460 ; (setq pos (next-overlay-change pos)))))
462 ;; Emacs/XEmacs compatibility layer
464 (defun ansi-color-make-face (property color
)
465 "Return a face with PROPERTY set to COLOR.
466 PROPERTY can be either symbol `foreground' or symbol `background'.
468 For Emacs, we just return the cons cell \(PROPERTY . COLOR).
469 For XEmacs, we create a temporary face and return it."
470 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
471 (let ((face (make-face (intern (concat color
"-" (symbol-name property
)))
472 "Temporary face created by ansi-color."
474 (set-face-property face property color
)
476 (cond ((eq property
'foreground
)
477 (cons 'foreground-color color
))
478 ((eq property
'background
)
479 (cons 'background-color color
))
481 (cons property color
)))))
483 (defun ansi-color-make-extent (from to
&optional object
)
484 "Make an extent for the range [FROM, TO) in OBJECT.
486 OBJECT defaults to the current buffer. XEmacs uses `make-extent', Emacs
487 uses `make-overlay'. XEmacs can use a buffer or a string for OBJECT,
488 Emacs requires OBJECT to be a buffer."
489 (if (fboundp 'make-extent
)
490 (make-extent from to object
)
491 ;; In Emacs, the overlay might end at the process-mark in comint
492 ;; buffers. In that case, new text will be inserted before the
493 ;; process-mark, ie. inside the overlay (using insert-before-marks).
494 ;; In order to avoid this, we use the `insert-behind-hooks' overlay
495 ;; property to make sure it works.
496 (let ((overlay (make-overlay from to object
)))
497 (overlay-put overlay
'modification-hooks
'(ansi-color-freeze-overlay))
500 (defun ansi-color-freeze-overlay (overlay is-after begin end
&optional len
)
501 "Prevent OVERLAY from being extended.
502 This function can be used for the `modification-hooks' overlay
504 ;; if stuff was inserted at the end of the overlay
507 (= end
(overlay-end overlay
)))
508 ;; reset the end of the overlay
509 (move-overlay overlay
(overlay-start overlay
) begin
)))
511 (defun ansi-color-set-extent-face (extent face
)
512 "Set the `face' property of EXTENT to FACE.
513 XEmacs uses `set-extent-face', Emacs uses `overlay-put'."
514 (if (featurep 'xemacs
)
515 (set-extent-face extent face
)
516 (overlay-put extent
'face face
)))
520 (defun ansi-color-apply-sequence (escape-sequence faces
)
521 "Apply ESCAPE-SEQ to FACES and return the new list of faces.
523 ESCAPE-SEQ is an escape sequences parsed by `ansi-color-get-face'.
525 If the new faces start with the symbol `default', then the new
526 faces are returned. If the faces start with something else,
527 they are appended to the front of the FACES list, and the new
528 list of faces is returned.
530 If `ansi-color-get-face' returns nil, then we either got a
531 null-sequence, or we stumbled upon some garbage. In either
533 (let ((new-faces (ansi-color-get-face escape-sequence
)))
534 (cond ((null new-faces
)
536 ((eq (car new-faces
) 'default
)
539 ;; Like (append NEW-FACES FACES)
540 ;; but delete duplicates in FACES.
541 (let ((modified-faces (copy-sequence faces
)))
542 (dolist (face (nreverse new-faces
))
543 (setq modified-faces
(delete face modified-faces
))
544 (push face modified-faces
))
547 (defun ansi-color-make-color-map ()
548 "Creates a vector of face definitions and returns it.
550 The index into the vector is an ANSI code. See the documentation of
551 `ansi-color-map' for an example.
553 The face definitions are based upon the variables
554 `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
555 (let ((ansi-color-map (make-vector 50 nil
))
557 ;; miscellaneous attributes
559 (function (lambda (e)
560 (aset ansi-color-map index e
)
561 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
562 ansi-color-faces-vector
)
563 ;; foreground attributes
566 (function (lambda (e)
567 (aset ansi-color-map index
568 (ansi-color-make-face 'foreground e
))
569 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
570 ansi-color-names-vector
)
571 ;; background attributes
574 (function (lambda (e)
575 (aset ansi-color-map index
576 (ansi-color-make-face 'background e
))
577 (setq index
(1+ index
)) ))
578 ansi-color-names-vector
)
581 (defvar ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)
582 "A brand new color map suitable for `ansi-color-get-face'.
584 The value of this variable is usually constructed by
585 `ansi-color-make-color-map'. The values in the array are such that the
586 numbers included in an SGR control sequences point to the correct
587 foreground or background colors.
589 Example: The sequence \033[34m specifies a blue foreground. Therefore:
590 (aref ansi-color-map 34)
591 => \(foreground-color . \"blue\")")
593 (defun ansi-color-map-update (symbol value
)
594 "Update `ansi-color-map'.
596 Whenever the vectors used to construct `ansi-color-map' are changed,
597 this function is called. Therefore this function is listed as the :set
598 property of `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'."
599 (set-default symbol value
)
600 (setq ansi-color-map
(ansi-color-make-color-map)))
602 (defun ansi-color-get-face-1 (ansi-code)
603 "Get face definition from `ansi-color-map'.
604 ANSI-CODE is used as an index into the vector."
606 (aref ansi-color-map ansi-code
)
607 ('args-out-of-range nil
)))
609 (defun ansi-color-get-face (escape-seq)
610 "Create a new face by applying all the parameters in ESCAPE-SEQ.
612 Should any of the parameters result in the default face (usually this is
613 the parameter 0), then the effect of all previous parameters is cancelled.
615 ESCAPE-SEQ is a SGR control sequences such as \\033[34m. The parameter
616 34 is used by `ansi-color-get-face-1' to return a face definition."
619 (while (string-match ansi-color-parameter-regexp escape-seq i
)
620 (setq i
(match-end 0)
621 val
(ansi-color-get-face-1
622 (string-to-number (match-string 1 escape-seq
) 10)))
627 (unless (member val f
)
631 (provide 'ansi-color
)
633 ;; arch-tag: 00726118-9432-44fd-b72d-d2af7591c99c
634 ;;; ansi-color.el ends here