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Old 03-07-2009, 02:49 PM   #1
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Text Editor that can display ANSI Colour


Im looking for a text editor that when displaying a document will parse any ANSI colour codes it comes across into the correct colours rather than just show the codes in the ^[[xx;xx;xxm format

can anyone recomend somthing?
 
Old 03-07-2009, 03:44 PM   #2
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Emacs.
 
Old 03-07-2009, 04:23 PM   #3
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1 how do i get it to do that as it seems to show me just the escape sequences like anythig else...


2 is there anything that dousent take several lifetimes to learn how to use?
 
Old 03-07-2009, 04:26 PM   #4
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1 how do i get it to do that as it seems to show me just the escape sequences like anythig else...


2 is there anything that dousent take several lifetimes to learn how to use?
Emacs is simple, no more complex than anything else at least. Try using

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ansi-color.el

to use ansi colour in emacs.
 
  


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