Hi XEmacs Team, Maybe you want to add ansi-color.el to XEmacs? It is already part of Emacs. Alex. ;;; ansi-color.el --- translate ANSI escape sequences into faces ;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Alex Schroeder <alex(a)gnu.org&gt; ;; Maintainer: Alex Schroeder <alex(a)gnu.org&gt; ;; Version: 3.4.0 ;; Keywords: comm processes ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it ;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the ;; Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any ;; later version. ;; ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;; General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; This file provides a function that takes a string or a region ;; containing Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) control sequences (formerly ;; known as ANSI escape sequences) and tries to translate these into ;; faces. ;; ;; This allows you to run ls --color=yes in shell-mode. In order to ;; test this, proceed as follows: ;; ;; 1. start a shell: M-x shell ;; 2. load this file: M-x load-library RET ansi-color RET ;; 3. activate ansi-color: M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on ;; 4. test ls --color=yes in the *shell* buffer ;; ;; Note that starting your shell from within Emacs might set the TERM ;; environment variable. The new setting might disable the output of ;; SGR control sequences. Using ls --color=yes forces ls to produce ;; these. ;; ;; If you decide you like this, add the following to your .emacs file: ;; ;; (autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t) ;; (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on) ;; ;; SGR control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the ECMA-48 ;; standard (identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available as a ;; PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>. The ;; "Graphic Rendition Combination Mode (GRCM)" implemented is ;; "cumulative mode" as defined in section 7.2.8. Cumulative mode means ;; that whenever possible, SGR control sequences are combined (ie. blue ;; and bold). ;; The basic functions are: ;; ;; `ansi-color-apply' to colorize a string containing SGR control ;; sequences. ;; ;; `ansi-color-filter-apply' to filter SGR control sequences from a ;; string. ;; ;; `ansi-color-apply-on-region' to colorize a region containing SGR ;; control sequences. ;; ;; `ansi-color-filter-region' to filter SGR control sequences from a ;; region. ;;; Thanks ;; Georges Brun-Cottan <gbruncot(a)emc.com&gt; for improving ansi-color.el ;; substantially by adding the code needed to cope with arbitrary chunks ;; of output and the filter functions. ;; ;; Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk&gt; for pointing me to ECMA-48. ;; ;; Stefan Monnier <foo(a)acm.com&gt; explaing obscure font-lock stuff and ;; code suggestions.  ;;; Code: ;; Customization (defgroup ansi-colors nil "Translating SGR control sequences to faces. This translation effectively colorizes strings and regions based upon SGR control sequences embedded in the text. SGR (Select Graphic Rendition) control sequences are defined in section 3.8.117 of the ECMA-48 standard \(identical to ISO/IEC 6429), which is freely available as a PDF file <URL:http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-048.HTM>." :version "20.7" :group 'processes) (defcustom ansi-color-faces-vector [default bold default italic underline bold bold-italic modeline] "Faces used for SGR control sequences determining a face. This vector holds the faces used for SGR control sequence parameters 0 to 7. Parameter Description Face used by default 0 default default 1 bold bold 2 faint default 3 italic italic 4 underlined underline 5 slowly blinking bold 6 rapidly blinking bold-italic 7 negative image modeline Note that the symbol `default' is special: It will not be combined with the current face. This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'." :type '(vector face face face face face face face face) :set 'ansi-color-map-update :initialize 'custom-initialize-default :group 'ansi-colors) (defcustom ansi-color-names-vector ["black" "red" "green" "yellow" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "white"] "Colors used for SGR control sequences determining a color. This vector holds the colors used for SGR control sequences parameters 30 to 37 \(foreground colors) and 40 to 47 (background colors). Parameter Color 30 40 black 31 41 red 32 42 green 33 43 yellow 34 44 blue 35 45 magenta 36 46 cyan 37 47 white This vector is used by `ansi-color-make-color-map' to create a color map. This color map is stored in the variable `ansi-color-map'." :type '(vector string string string string string string string string) :set 'ansi-color-map-update :initialize 'custom-initialize-default :group 'ansi-colors) (defconst ansi-color-regexp "\033\\[\\([0-9;]*\\)m" "Regexp that matches SGR control sequences.") (defconst ansi-color-parameter-regexp "\\([0-9]*\\)[m;]" "Regexp that matches SGR control sequence parameters.") ;; Convenience functions for comint modes (eg. shell-mode) (defcustom ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil "Determines what to do with comint output. If nil, do nothing. If the symbol `filter', then filter all SGR control sequences. If anything else (such as t), then translate SGR control sequences into text-properties. In order for this to have any effect, `ansi-color-process-output' must be in `comint-output-filter-functions'. This can be used to enable colorized ls --color=yes output in shell buffers. You set this variable by calling one of: \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on] \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off] \\[ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter]" :version "20.8" :type '(choice (const :tag "Do nothing" nil) (const :tag "Filter" filter) (const :tag "Translate" t)) :group 'ansi-colors) (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on () "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to t." (interactive) (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t)) (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-off () "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to nil." (interactive) (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil)) (defun ansi-color-for-comint-mode-filter () "Set `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' to symbol `filter'." (interactive) (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode 'filter)) (defun ansi-color-process-output (string) "Maybe translate SGR control sequences of comint output into text-properties. Depending on variable `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' the comint output is either not processed, SGR control sequences are filtered using `ansi-color-filter-region', or SGR control sequences are translated into text-properties using `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. The comint output is assumed to lie between the marker `comint-last-output-start' and the process-mark. This is a good function to put in `comint-output-filter-functions'." (let ((start-marker (or comint-last-output-start (point-min-marker))) (end-marker (process-mark (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))) (cond ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode nil)) ((eq ansi-color-for-comint-mode 'filter) (ansi-color-filter-region start-marker end-marker)) (t (ansi-color-apply-on-region start-marker end-marker))))) (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'ansi-color-process-output) ;; Alternative font-lock-unfontify-region-function (eval-when-compile ;; We use this to preserve or protect things when modifying text ;; properties. Stolen from lazy-lock and font-lock. Ugly!!! ;; Probably most of this is not needed? (defmacro save-buffer-state (varlist &rest body) "Bind variables according to VARLIST and eval BODY restoring buffer state." (` (let* ((,＠ (append varlist '((modified (buffer-modified-p)) (buffer-undo-list t) (inhibit-read-only t) (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t) before-change-functions after-change-functions deactivate-mark buffer-file-name buffer-file-truename)))) (,＠ body) (when (and (not modified) (buffer-modified-p)) (set-buffer-modified-p nil))))) (put 'save-buffer-state 'lisp-indent-function 1)) (defun ansi-color-unfontify-region (beg end &rest xemacs-stuff) "Replacement function for `font-lock-default-unfontify-region'. When font-lock is active in a buffer, you cannot simply add face text-properties to the buffer. Font-lock will remove the face text-property using `font-lock-unfontify-region-function'. If you want to insert the strings returned by `ansi-color-apply' into such buffers, you must set `font-lock-unfontify-region-function' to `ansi-color-unfontify-region'. This function will not remove all face text-properties unconditionally. It will keep the face text-properties if the property `ansi-color' is set. The region from BEG to END is unfontified. XEMACS-STUFF is ignored. A possible way to install this would be: \(add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook \(function (lambda () \(setq font-lock-unfontify-region-function 'ansi-color-unfontify-region))))" ;; save-buffer-state is a macro in font-lock.el! (save-buffer-state nil (when (boundp 'font-lock-syntactic-keywords) (remove-text-properties beg end '(syntax-table nil))) ;; instead of just using (remove-text-properties beg end '(face ;; nil)), we find regions with a non-nil face test-property, skip ;; positions with the ansi-color property set, and remove the ;; remaining face test-properties. (while (setq beg (text-property-not-all beg end 'face nil)) (setq beg (or (text-property-not-all beg end 'ansi-color t) end)) (when (get-text-property beg 'face) (let ((end-face (or (text-property-any beg end 'face nil) end))) (remove-text-properties beg end-face '(face nil)) (setq beg end-face)))))) ;; Working with strings (defvar ansi-color-context nil "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply'. This is a list of the form (FACES FRAGMENT) or nil. FACES is a list of faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply' ended with, and FRAGMENT is a string starting with an escape sequence, possibly the start of a new escape sequence.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context) (defun ansi-color-filter-apply (string) "Filter out all SGR control sequences from STRING. Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences. This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this. This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'." (let ((start 0) end result) ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it (if (cadr ansi-color-context) (setq string (concat (cadr ansi-color-context) string) ansi-color-context nil)) ;; find the next escape sequence (while (setq end (string-match ansi-color-regexp string start)) (setq result (concat result (substring string start end)) start (match-end 0))) ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result (let (fragment) (if (string-match "\033" string start) (let ((pos (match-beginning 0))) (setq fragment (substring string pos) result (concat result (substring string start pos)))) (setq result (concat result (substring string start)))) (if fragment (setq ansi-color-context (list nil fragment)) (setq ansi-color-context nil))) result)) (defun ansi-color-apply (string) "Translates SGR control sequences into text-properties. Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors to STRING using text-properties and returns the result. The colors used are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details. Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable `ansi-color-context' to save partial escape sequences and current face. This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply'. Set `ansi-color-context' to nil if you don't want this. This function can be added to `comint-preoutput-filter-functions'. You cannot insert the strings returned into buffers using font-lock. See `ansi-color-unfontify-region' for a way around this." (let ((face (car ansi-color-context)) (start 0) end escape-sequence result) ;; if context was saved and is a string, prepend it (if (cadr ansi-color-context) (setq string (concat (cadr ansi-color-context) string) ansi-color-context nil)) ;; find the next escape sequence (while (setq end (string-match ansi-color-regexp string start)) ;; store escape sequence (setq escape-sequence (match-string 1 string)) ;; colorize the old block from start to end using old face (when face (put-text-property start end 'ansi-color t string) (put-text-property start end 'face face string)) (setq result (concat result (substring string start end)) start (match-end 0)) ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape ;; sequence (setq face (ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face))) ;; if the rest of the string should have a face, put it there (when face (put-text-property start (length string) 'ansi-color t string) (put-text-property start (length string) 'face face string)) ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result (let (fragment) (if (string-match "\033" string start) (let ((pos (match-beginning 0))) (setq fragment (substring string pos) result (concat result (substring string start pos)))) (setq result (concat result (substring string start)))) (if (or face fragment) (setq ansi-color-context (list face fragment)) (setq ansi-color-context nil))) result)) ;; Working with regions (defvar ansi-color-context-region nil "Context saved between two calls to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. This is a list of the form (FACES MARKER) or nil. FACES is a list of faces the last call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region' ended with, and MARKER is a buffer position within an escape sequence or the last position processed.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'ansi-color-context-region) (defun ansi-color-filter-region (begin end) "Filter out all SGR control sequences from region BEGIN to END. Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable `ansi-color-context-region' to save position. This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override BEGIN, the start of the region. Set `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this." (let ((end-marker (copy-marker end)) (start (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region) begin))) (save-excursion (goto-char start) ;; find the next escape sequence (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t) ;; delete the escape sequence (replace-match "")) ;; save context, add the remainder of the string to the result (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t) (setq ansi-color-context-region (list nil (match-beginning 0))) (setq ansi-color-context-region nil))))) (defun ansi-color-apply-on-region (begin end) "Translates SGR control sequences into overlays or extents. Applies SGR control sequences setting foreground and background colors to text in region between BEGIN and END using extents or overlays. Emacs will use overlays, XEmacs will use extents. The colors used are given in `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'. See function `ansi-color-apply-sequence' for details. Every call to this function will set and use the buffer-local variable `ansi-color-context-region' to save position and current face. This information will be used for the next call to `ansi-color-apply-on-region'. Specifically, it will override BEGIN, the start of the region and set the face with which to start. Set `ansi-color-context-region' to nil if you don't want this." (let ((face (car ansi-color-context-region)) (start-marker (or (cadr ansi-color-context-region) (copy-marker begin))) (end-marker (copy-marker end)) escape-sequence) (save-excursion (goto-char start-marker) ;; find the next escape sequence (while (re-search-forward ansi-color-regexp end-marker t) ;; colorize the old block from start to end using old face (when face (ansi-color-set-extent-face (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker (match-beginning 0)) face)) ;; store escape sequence and new start position (setq escape-sequence (match-string 1) start-marker (copy-marker (match-end 0))) ;; delete the escape sequence (replace-match "") ;; create new face by applying all the parameters in the escape ;; sequence (setq face (ansi-color-apply-sequence escape-sequence face))) ;; search for the possible start of a new escape sequence (if (re-search-forward "\033" end-marker t) (progn ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there (when face (ansi-color-set-extent-face (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker (point)) face)) ;; save face and point (setq ansi-color-context-region (list face (copy-marker (match-beginning 0))))) ;; if the rest of the region should have a face, put it there (if face (progn (ansi-color-set-extent-face (ansi-color-make-extent start-marker end-marker) face) (setq ansi-color-context-region (list face))) ;; reset context (setq ansi-color-context-region nil)))))) ;; This function helps you look for overlapping overlays. This is ;; usefull in comint-buffers. Overlapping overlays should not happen! ;; A possible cause for bugs are the markers. If you create an overlay ;; up to the end of the region, then that end might coincide with the ;; process-mark. As text is added BEFORE the process-mark, the overlay ;; will keep growing. Therefore, as more overlays are created later on, ;; there will be TWO OR MORE overlays covering the buffer at that point. ;; This function helps you check your buffer for these situations. ; (defun ansi-color-debug-overlays () ; (interactive) ; (let ((pos (point-min))) ; (while (< pos (point-max)) ; (if (<= 2 (length (overlays-at pos))) ; (progn ; (goto-char pos) ; (error "%d overlays at %d" (length (overlays-at pos)) pos)) ; (let (message-log-max) ; (message "Reached %d." pos))) ; (setq pos (next-overlay-change pos))))) ;; Emacs/XEmacs compatibility layer (defun ansi-color-make-face (property color) "Return a face with PROPERTY set to COLOR. PROPERTY can be either symbol `foreground' or symbol `background'. For Emacs, we just return the cons cell \(PROPERTY . COLOR). For XEmacs, we create a temporary face and return it." (if (featurep 'xemacs) (let ((face (make-face (intern (concat color "-" (symbol-name property))) "Temporary face created by ansi-color." t))) (set-face-property face property color) face) (cond ((eq property 'foreground) (cons 'foreground-color color)) ((eq property 'background) (cons 'background-color color)) (t (cons property color))))) (defun ansi-color-make-extent (from to &optional object) "Make an extent for the range [FROM, TO) in OBJECT. OBJECT defaults to the current buffer. XEmacs uses `make-extent', Emacs uses `make-overlay'. XEmacs can use a buffer or a string for OBJECT, Emacs requires OBJECT to be a buffer." (if (functionp 'make-extent) (make-extent from to object) ;; In Emacs, the overlay might end at the process-mark in comint ;; buffers. In that case, new text will be inserted before the ;; process-mark, ie. inside the overlay (using insert-before-marks). ;; In order to avoid this, we use the `insert-behind-hooks' overlay ;; property to make sure it works. (let ((overlay (make-overlay from to object))) (overlay-put overlay 'modification-hooks '(ansi-color-freeze-overlay)) overlay))) (defun ansi-color-freeze-overlay (overlay is-after begin end &optional len) "Prevent OVERLAY from being extended. This function can be used for the `modification-hooks' overlay property." ;; if stuff was inserted at the end of the overlay (when (and is-after (= 0 len) (= end (overlay-end overlay))) ;; reset the end of the overlay (move-overlay overlay (overlay-start overlay) begin))) (defun ansi-color-set-extent-face (extent face) "Set the `face' property of EXTENT to FACE. XEmacs uses `set-extent-face', Emacs uses `overlay-put'." (if (functionp 'set-extent-face) (set-extent-face extent face) (overlay-put extent 'face face))) ;; Helper functions (defun ansi-color-apply-sequence (escape-sequence faces) "Apply ESCAPE-SEQ to FACES and return the new list of faces. ESCAPE-SEQ is an escape sequences parsed by `ansi-color-get-face'. If the new faces start with the symbol `default', then the new faces are returned. If the faces start with something else, they are appended to the front of the FACES list, and the new list of faces is returned. If `ansi-color-get-face' returns nil, then we either got a null-sequence, or we stumbled upon some garbage. In either case we return nil." (let ((new-faces (ansi-color-get-face escape-sequence))) (cond ((null new-faces) nil) ((eq (car new-faces) 'default) (cdr new-faces)) (t (append new-faces face))))) (defun ansi-color-make-color-map () "Creates a vector of face definitions and returns it. The index into the vector is an ANSI code. See the documentation of `ansi-color-map' for an example. The face definitions are based upon the variables `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'." (let ((ansi-color-map (make-vector 50 nil)) (index 0)) ;; miscellaneous attributes (mapcar (function (lambda (e) (aset ansi-color-map index e) (setq index (1+ index)) )) ansi-color-faces-vector) ;; foreground attributes (setq index 30) (mapcar (function (lambda (e) (aset ansi-color-map index (ansi-color-make-face 'foreground e)) (setq index (1+ index)) )) ansi-color-names-vector) ;; background attributes (setq index 40) (mapcar (function (lambda (e) (aset ansi-color-map index (ansi-color-make-face 'background e)) (setq index (1+ index)) )) ansi-color-names-vector) ansi-color-map)) (defvar ansi-color-map (ansi-color-make-color-map) "A brand new color map suitable for `ansi-color-get-face'. The value of this variable is usually constructed by `ansi-color-make-color-map'. The values in the array are such that the numbers included in an SGR control sequences point to the correct foreground or background colors. Example: The sequence \033[34m specifies a blue foreground. Therefore: (aref ansi-color-map 34) => \(foreground-color . \"blue\")") (defun ansi-color-map-update (symbol value) "Update `ansi-color-map'. Whenever the vectors used to construct `ansi-color-map' are changed, this function is called. Therefore this function is listed as the :set property of `ansi-color-faces-vector' and `ansi-color-names-vector'." (set-default symbol value) (setq ansi-color-map (ansi-color-make-color-map))) (defun ansi-color-get-face-1 (ansi-code) "Get face definition from `ansi-color-map'. ANSI-CODE is used as an index into the vector." (condition-case nil (aref ansi-color-map ansi-code) ('args-out-of-range nil))) (defun ansi-color-get-face (escape-seq) "Create a new face by applying all the parameters in ESCAPE-SEQ. Should any of the parameters result in the default face (usually this is the parameter 0), then the effect of all previous parameters is cancelled. ESCAPE-SEQ is a SGR control sequences such as \\033[34m. The parameter 34 is used by `ansi-color-get-face-1' to return a face definition." (let ((ansi-color-r "[0-9][0-9]?") (i 0) f val) (while (string-match ansi-color-r escape-seq i) (setq i (match-end 0) val (ansi-color-get-face-1 (string-to-int (match-string 0 escape-seq) 10))) (cond ((not val)) ((eq val 'default) (setq f (list val))) (t (add-to-list 'f val)))) f)) (provide 'ansi-color) ;;; ansi-color.el ends here