`Term::ANSIColor` - ANSI escape sequences in Ruby¶ ↑

Description¶ ↑

This library can be used to color/decolor strings using ANSI escape sequences.

Use rubygems to install the gem:

# gem install term-ansicolor

The homepage of this library is located at

The following executables are provided with Term::ANSIColor:

term_cdiff: colors a diff patch
term_colortab: Displays a table of the 256 terminal colors with their indices and nearest html equivalents.
term_display: displays a ppm3 or ppm6 image file in the terminal. If the netpbm programs are installed it can handle a lot of other image file formats.
term_decolor: decolors any text file that was colored with ANSI escape sequences
term_mandel: displays the mandelbrot set in the terminal
term_plasma: draws a plasma effect on the console, possibly animated and refreshed every -n seconds.
term_snow: displays falling snow in the terminal using ANSI movement sequences.

Additionally the file examples/example.rb in the source/gem-distribution shows how this library can be used.

Florian Frank flori@ping.de

Apache License, Version 2.0 – See the COPYING file in the source archive.