AnsiStatusColors

Colorize your status bar using ansi escape sequences.

Description

Lets you put colored text in your status bar, but you don't have define them in your config.h. Instead, just put the ansi escape sequence in the output of your status bar script to print in color, as you would in a terminal.

Usage

Just like you'd use them for colorizing a shell script.

More info is here: http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/

An ansi escape sequence is in the form:

\e[<code>m

where:

\e - escape - ascii 27 / hex 1b / octal 033
[ - literal bracket
m - literal 'm'

The code is one of the following:

0 
    - reset colors to default

n;m

    n -
        o - normal color
        1 - 'bright' color

    m -
        30-37 - foreground
        40-47 - background

n;5;m
    
    n - 
        38 - foreground
        48 - background
    5 - 
        literal '5'
    m - 
        0-15 - classic ansi color
        16-231 - xterm 256-color rgb color
        232-255 - grayscale

In vim, to create a literal 'escape' character, type ctrl-v, esc. in perl/python/c, within a string literal, it's "\x1b".

Example

#!/usr/bin/env python
##testcoloredstatus.py

from subprocess import call,check_output

redfg = '\x1b[38;5;196m' #hex
redbg = '\033[48;5;196m'  #octal
blackbg = '\x1b[48;5;16m'
reset = '\x1b[0m'

call(['xsetroot','-name',''.join(
    [
        redfg,
        'hello ',
        reset,
        redbg,
        'world',
        reset,
        '! bar graph: 50% ',
        redbg,
        ' '*5,
        blackbg,
        ' '*5,
        reset,
        '  ',
        check_output("date").strip()
    ]
)], shell=False)

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