[fpc-pascal] Printing terminal colors with writeln

Ryan Joseph genericptr at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 22:41:38 CEST 2019


In C I can do:

// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences

printf("\033[31;1;4mHello\033[0m");

and get red text in the terminal (MacOS). When I do the same thing with writeln and FPC it prints the literal characters with no colors. Why doesn’t this work the same in FPC I wonder?

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph



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