This is interesting timing. Bombadillo v1.x supported printing any escape codes it received. With 2.0.0 we eliminated that support in favor of filtering out escape codes (likely in a naive but mostly functional way andy time `\033` is encountered anything that follows it until a `[A-Za-z]` character is reached will not be rendered (including the terminal character that ends the sequence). That is where things stand with Bombadillo's mainline release right now. However, there has been an issue in our backlog for awhile now to reinstate color. I worked on this a bit over the last week and have done the following: I have added a "theme" (previoiusly there was only 'normal' and 'inverse') called 'color'. This theme looks identical to the normal theme, except it will render the escape sequences. This approach allows the user to move in and out of this rendering at will. If something doesnt look right in `color` mode they can always switch to `normal` mode. Sadly, color is not compatible with `inverse` mode since I use escape sequences to achieve the inverse effect and it is immediately removed anyone tosses out a `\033[0m`. I am kind of opposed to developing any syntax for text/gemini that would treat escape sequences any differently than any other text. Clients can choose how and if to implement escape codes in a way that makes sense to them and their user-base. I think most clients will be well served taking Sean's approach of filtering out escape codes. For those wanting to keep clients lightweight a simple string replace for `\033` to any other character (maybe a box?) will make the escape codes not render, but still show document intent. This is REALLY easy to implement in just about any language. I really like the usage of color on cat's recent page and hope to see more people using color. I do 100% agree with Sean though that using color is often presumptuous and I have ran into issues where my terminal's bg color did not mesh well at all with the colors being used by an application (which is partly why bombadillo's tui does not use colors, only inversion). I also agree with Sean (it seems to be happening a lot this time around) that getting closer to an answer on reflow eventually would be a good idea. As it stands I am wrapping but doing no reflow whatsoever. --? Sent with https://mailfence.com Secure and private email
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