Use case: my team has ~200 powershell modules deployed to an enterprise nuget source. Our dependency trees are a little cumbersome. We don't want to add any dependencies if we can avoid it.
We do use ANSI sequences, some of which I have generated with Pansies - ♥ - but I am currently doing some awkward manipulation to create strings which I can embed in our modules.
I would like to use a function New-VtConsoleSequence in development, to create those strings.
It would have a Reset switch in one parameterset, to output an ANSI reset; the other parameterset would accept any valid input to the ctor for RgbColor, e.g. ForestGreen1, ea0016.
I would also like a EscapeAsExpression switch, which would behave as follows:
> New-VtConsoleSequence ea0016 -EscapeAsExpression
$([char]27)[38;2;234;0;22m
> New-VtConsoleSequence -Reset -EscapeAsExpression
$([char]27)[39m
Then my module functions will have code like this:
$DeepSkyBlue = "$([char]27)[38;2;0;191;255m"
$Reset = "$([char]27)[0m"
Write-Information "$DeepSkyBlue`Stuff possibly relating to other stuff.$Reset"
Use case: my team has ~200 powershell modules deployed to an enterprise nuget source. Our dependency trees are a little cumbersome. We don't want to add any dependencies if we can avoid it.
We do use ANSI sequences, some of which I have generated with Pansies - ♥ - but I am currently doing some awkward manipulation to create strings which I can embed in our modules.
I would like to use a function
New-VtConsoleSequencein development, to create those strings.It would have a
Resetswitch in one parameterset, to output an ANSI reset; the other parameterset would accept any valid input to the ctor for RgbColor, e.g.ForestGreen1,ea0016.I would also like a
EscapeAsExpressionswitch, which would behave as follows:Then my module functions will have code like this: