A method to strip ANSI codes
nikomatsakis opened this issue · comments
It'd be nice if there were a way to strip the color code after the fact (basically to uncover the plain text from an ANSIString or ANSIStrings). That way, you can construct colored text, but throw the colors away at the last minute if you find the renderer doesn't support them or what have you.
It's funny, this crate's purpose has gone from "add ANSI codes to a string" to "maintain a vector of coloured text, then add ANSI codes to it at the end". Maybe I shouldn't have emphasised the ANSI part of it so much!
Anyway, this seems like a missing feature I can add. Just to be clear, you're talking about getting str values out of an ANSIString that hasn't been displayed yet, rather than stripping the codes from a String?
I'm not sure actually how important this feature is -- it seems like there is a need for something like NSAttributedString 1 but maybe this library isn't the place to do it.
Just to be clear, you're talking about getting str values out of an ANSIString that hasn't been displayed yet
Yes.
I made it so you can Deref an ANSIString and get a &str out.