Echo with color.

[Vadi]

Works as expected... thanks! Hope to include it in the next release of Mudlet.

[Denarii]

I'm working on merging the two functions for the next version of Mudlet so that you'll be able to use hex, decimal or name color tags.

[Thylacine]

Can we still optionally have the non-lrexlib dependent version available separately?

Lua already has pattern matching which is pretty similar to regular expressions anyway. That, and lrexlib wont work on my system and probably a couple of others

[Vadi]

Good point... I still have yet to package lrexlib for ubuntu. This'll save a lot of work.

[Denarii]

After some discussion, instead of merging them I'm creating separate functions, cecho for named colors, decho for decimal RGB, etc. I'll probably include versions using Lua's pattern matching that it will fall back on if lrexlib isn't loaded.

[hempa]

Looking at these functions, there's one I am really missing. A colorable prefix. I like to put prefixes before stuff and tend to add colors all over my system Is it at all possible to make a prefix and/or replace function for this as well?

[Vadi]

It's possible. Prefix is defined in the LuaGlobal as

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-- Echo something before your line
function prefix(what)
    moveCursor("main",0,getLineNumber());
	insertText(what)
end

So we can either wait until denarii puts in the separately-named functions in luaglobal and make it work or overwrite in the client for now.

[hempa]

Oh, I have already seen that one, but not with a simple coloring syntax. Of course, I could hack the cecho functions to do everything backwards, but that's a bit of a roundaway way of doing it Can I put in ansi codes directly into echo/prefix text somehow? If so, I can just put it in a Lua table..

[Vadi]

well, insertText = echo now afaik.

[Denarii]

Well I can change the color echo functions to be able to prefix.. right now there is an arg to make them use inserttext, but you still have to position the cursor. And my changes won't be available until the next release.