I don't know what the correct keywords are for what I am trying to achieve.
I have rainbarf for tmux which AFAIK is written in Perl.
I am wondering if there is some library, extension or functionality in node.js which would enable me to draw bars like the ones rainbarf draws, in order to write tmux monitors (wifi, GPU usage, etc).
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I think that the correct term is unicode boxes as I have finally found a page that documents them.
They seem to be unicode geometric shapes So I am guessing that correctly printing them to screen (assuming the terminal supports them) should achieve the same result?
They appear to be small pixel-sized boxes constrained by the size of a font.
rainbarf is inspired on spark. There are several implementations of spark in JavaScript (and also other languages), check here: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Alternative-Implementations
I found the answer to my question.
This is not related to Node.JS and is in fact simple unicode character printing.
The above picture simply prints a sequence of those characters in a sequence:
'\u2581','\u2582','\u2583','\u2584',
'\u2585','\u2586','\u2587','\u2588'
This in effect produces the "unicode" graph.
It is not language specific, but the colors are.
Related
This is really a two part question, but they are in the same vein, so I will ask in one post.
When I flip through various colors, I see that they also have the ability to change the color of the Output window. Which VS Code setting can I use to change the color of this output? To be specific, I am not asking about the terminal, I am inquiring about the output window that displays the output when using coderunner as an example. Please refer to the screenshot to see which window I am referring to.
Second question is I can see that the output does support multiple colors. I am trying to use the module cpprint from the python lib prettyprinter to print colored output to this window. When I run the script in a terminal, I am getting colors, but in the output window, I am not getting any colors. Will it be possible for me to get similar colored output in the output window as in the terminal? I am assuming the output window supports colors because the [Running]... and end are in colors.
The Python lib I was referring to
Thanks!
So, for long while now, we have had to resort to an IBM developed extension named Output Colorizer, however, this extension clashed with other extensions, and cuased an array of bugs/issues. I personally had to disable it because it was causing text to not print at all in my output window.
We now have a much more robust, built-in solution, and it doesn't require doing anything.
Visual Studio Code added syntax-highlighting support to the "Output Channel" as part of a Milestone that it had been working on, in its March 2022 Release.
The syntax highlighting is configured by a specified languages grammar.
The language grammar that is used will vary, depending on which output channel you use. The person who decided on the language syntax highlighting used for any given output-channel is the person who authored the extension that the output-channel belongs too.
Here is the link to the official release note
Because the output highlights syntax on a language basis, configuring what colors the new feature uses to color any given text, is done the same way you color syntax.
In Depth Explanation:
If numbers are set by your theme to render green (#00FF00), then, then numbers that are printed in the Output View Panel will also be green.
If the language defined constants true & false render as a pastel-red (#FF7799) when you are writing TypeScript, but when you have a Java file open, they render as a bright pastel-yellow-green (#BBEE88), then the way they render will be contingent on whether or not the output window was set to Java or TypeScript. Obviously an output window for an extension that's a tool for Java, will most likely highlight syntax as Java. A typescript-tool extension will likely highlight all syntax as if it were typescript.
Some People Might Prefer that the Feature be more Customizable
Some people might want a more customizable feature, but I think it would be a mistake, even if it were possible, to highlight the syntax in the output differently from the editor. In fact, thinking about it, it would be stupid to have done that. It makes perfect sense that it is the way it is.
Anyways, that is the end of the Color in the Output Channel, or at-least for now.
I know of the cprintf Undocumented Matlab way of changing the color and other font properties in the command window but I also saw this symbols in plots. This shows that Matlab supports TeX markup in plots at least. I played with it for a while and found it very useful. So much so that I wanted to find a way to include this in the command window.
I first tried sprintf('\color{red} Something\n') and was rewarded with an error that \c is not a recognized escape sequence. Google was no help either.
This is a way to use the some of the other formatting options in the command window?
The command window doesn't support TeX. Sorry. The TeX support is part of the routines that generate the figures, not the code that displays the command window.
In essence, the command window is, by modern standards, a pretty boring terminal emulator. There's not much you can do with it.
If you're looking for something to do math in that generates fancy notebooks on the fly that combine the commands you type and their results in a nice-to-read, modern way, you might just want to avoid Matlab and have a look at Jupyter (formerly IPython) Notebooks, which of course support MathJax (and thus, LaTeX math syntax): https://try.jupyter.org/
In the middle of a conversion project from unstructured Framemaker to DITA-compliant, structured Framemaker. Customer wants xrefs to be underlined in the output. Seems straightforward enough, but I've been all over the documentation and all over the internet and can't find what I need. The EDD file shows that we should be using the "link.external" style, which makes perfect sense, but for the life of me I can't figure out where link.external is defined. I've found one piece of documentation in all my searching that sort of comes close to what I need, but the process for styling an xref, according to this document, is long and laborious. I just can't believe that applying a simple style to an element is so hard. Where would I look for the definition of the "link.external" style (or any other style, for that matter)? What obvious point am I missing?
You apply the style in the Cross-Reference panel using building blocks in the cross-reference format(s).
For example:
Section 2.3.4, Volcanoes.
would be styled using the x-ref format below:
Section <$paranumonly>, <Emphasis><$paratext>.
Therefore, to underline all of the x-refs, create an underline character format such as Underline, and use it in a building block within every x-ref format that you have.
<Underline>“<$paratext>” on page\ <$pagenum>
The change only applies to the x-ref, not to the following text.
How can you work with the two sides of a bilingual/parallel text?
I know how to run diff and ediff on a text to spot little differences, but a bilingual text will have two completely different sides (expect for the paragraphs, number of chapters and other structural elements like notes). End of line and end of paragraph are certainly useful to mark the units of the two sides.
Is it possible to open two buffers, side by side, and tell what matches what?
This is a hard problem but I dug up an old blog post I read awhile ago that is relevant (and even mentions emacs for preprocessing):
https://languagefixation.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/how-to-create-parallel-texts-for-language-learning-part-1/
Especially check out part2
Beyond that, my suggestion is twofold:
1) Operate on small parts at a time (a chapter or less) and not an entire book
2) Utilize alignment tools available to generate metadata which emacs uses to just 'prettify' the buffer
As there's no existing solution (that I know of or can find), you'll have to get dirty with elisp and create a major or minor mode to colorize matching segments and/or navigate segments.
Quick Hack
However, I hacked some elisp together that takes preprocessed text and uses emacs concept of 'paragraph' and 'sentence' to colorize the buffer; it's a little verbose so I stuck it in a gist:
https://gist.github.com/terranpro/3175bb9f3ed00b3a145c
It's pretty ugly but should give you a start; just run it once in each of the text buffers. But be aware that you'll need to have the text already ready in terms of emacs' paragraphs and sentences (two spaces after a period!!). Hope it gives you a decent starting point.
In noweb mode, I would like to make the doc chunks and code chunks easier to distinguish. I'm already using font-lock-mode, but it applies the same face to strings in R and strings in tex, so doesn't distinguish the code and doc chunks very well.
For example, a slightly different background color for the code chunks.
One possibility would be to define a new face for the minor mode of the code chunk, but then that face would also apply when editing a buffer in that mode.
Another possibility would be to create an overlay for the code chunks.
Also, somewhat related, org-mode can be configured to use different background colors for source blocks.
Update: I now use polymode to achive this.
You can use noweb-font-lock-mode from ESS to get syntax highlighting for both code and documentation chunks. I'd recommend you also use noweb-mode from ESS too, because it has some improvements.
One option would be mmm-mode, with which you can define regions that are in a different mode -- it also applies a face to the entire sub-mode region, which you can use to easily distinguish those regions within the parent file.
I personally use this for Ruby within IRB, Javascript and CSS within HTML etc. There's an example for javascript in my emacs config.
The MuMaMo extensions allows different rules for different parts of the file. Getting the nXhtml package will give you the mode and I think you can configure it to do what you want.