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Color codes in Io

Is there a special trick to getting Io to switch the colors of terminal text? In Python I can run

print "\033[0;34;40mHi!"

and get a blue "Hi!".

In Io,

"\033[0;34;40mHi!" println

seems to have no effect.

Solution

  • Unfortunately it looks like Io sequences (strings) only convert single (alpha) character escape codes like \n or \t.

    So (for now) this maybe the only workaround:

    27 asCharacter .. "[0;34;40mHi!" println