Escape codes theme(s)

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Themes

• replace writing colors with ESC[ escape codes
• 16 colors
• 256 colors
• 24 bits colors
• underline, bold, italic, inverse etc... text colors

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Improvements with escape sequence to support more colors, eg:

PS C:\> "`e[38;5;100mSample\`e[0m"

Note:

ESC[ char is e`

256-colors

ESC[38;5;⟨n⟩m Select foreground color
ESC[48;5;⟨n⟩m Select background color
  0-  7:  standard colors (as in ESC [ 30–37 m)
  8- 15:  high intensity colors (as in ESC [ 90–97 m)
 16-231:  6 × 6 × 6 cube (216 colors): 16 + 36 × r + 6 × g + b (0 ≤ r, g, b ≤ 5)
232-255:  grayscale from black to white in 24 steps

24-bits:

ESC[38;2;⟨r⟩;⟨g⟩;⟨b⟩mSelect RGB foreground color
ESC[ 48;2;⟨r⟩;⟨g⟩;⟨b⟩ m Select RGB background color

the sequence must end with:

ESC[0m

eg 24-bits

"`e[38;2;255;128;64mRGB Text`e[0m"

more info on VT100 ansi terminal:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
• https://ss64.com/ps/syntax-esc.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_special_characters?view=powershell-7.2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
• • https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/research/gpc/VonaUtils/vona/terminal/vtansi.htm

it is possible to underline text, bold, etc and so on too.

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences?redirectedfrom=MSDN

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20705102/how-to-colorise-powershell-output-of-format-table

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extend getpowerdirinfo with types.ps1xml schema.
ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_types.ps1xml?view=powershell-7.2

to have a string of that requires to create format.ps1xml files as custom view.

so need to remove the string output, but instead outputting everything as an object.

(ok to start with string first)

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https://gist.github.com/fnky/458719343aabd01cfb17a3a4f7296797