Smokkfiskur

Smokkfiskur is a small library for colored (ANSI) output in Erlang. It's can be useful when you need to create a command-line applications.

Installation

Make sure, that rebar3 installed and configured in your OS and add {deps, [{smokkfiskur, "0.1.3"}]}. to your rebar.config now run the following command:

➜ ~ rebar3 compile

Usage

Just use the following format print(color, "Text").

smokkfiskur:print(red, "Red text").

Example

-import(smokkfiskur, [print/2]).

update_something() ->
  %% ...
  %% ...
  %% ...
  print(green, "Something has been updated successfully!").

or

-import(smokkfiskur, [print/2]).


%%=========================
%% Text
%%=========================
print(red,    "Text").
print(black,  "Text").

%%=========================
%% Background
%%=========================


background(red,    "Text").
background(black,  "Text").

Screenshot

Here you can find screenshot.