Show HN: Lip Gloss is a CSS-like layout library for the terminal for Go

jwalton wrote: post #4

iudqnolq wrote: post #3

How can it detect termin background color?

This is the function they are using to detect the background color: https://github.com/muesli/termenv/blob/d1b90ad4a4915162648dd... (There’s a different version of it for Windows.)

The windows one just returns default black, which is correct in most cases since very few change it to something else.

https://github.com/muesli/termenv/blob/d1b90ad4a4915162648dd...

Re: Show HN: Lip Gloss is a CSS-like layout library for the terminal for Go

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Post by bradrn » Sun, Apr 04, 2021, 8:11 AM UTC

de6u99er wrote: post #5

jwalton wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the function they are using to detect the background color: https://github.com/muesli/termenv/blob/d1b90ad4a4915162648dd... (There’s a different version of it for Windows.)

The windows one just returns default black, which is correct in most cases since very few change it to something else. https://github.com/muesli/termenv/blob/d1b90ad4a4915162648dd...

This is not entirely true: Windows Powershell defaulted to a blue background. Though this is admittedly an edge case, as Windows Powershell is now deprecated in favour of Powershell Core (which has a black background) IIRC.

Re: Show HN: Lip Gloss is a CSS-like layout library for the terminal for Go

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Post by watersb » Sun, Apr 04, 2021, 11:57 PM UTC

GNU libtextstyle, part of gettext, includes CSS styling for ANSI terminal emulator text output.

For some values of "CSS" and "ANSI".

I will dig into a bit when I return to office computer...