Add pretty printing without colour

[0rphee]

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[0rphee]

Pinging just in case @tomjaguarpaw

[tomjaguarpaw]

Thanks, I wasn't subscribed to the repo (but I am now).

This seems reasonable. Is it for your work including stan into HLS?

It's interesting that colourista seems to embed escape codes straight into the string. I was expecting it to use some structured format that we could erase colour from, but maybe not.

We should wait to see if @vrom911 has any objections. She's the project owner and I'm just an assistant. In the meantime can you say more about the use case?

[0rphee]

This seems reasonable. Is it for your work including stan into HLS?

Precisely.

In the meantime can you say more about the use case?

For the hls plugin, initially I used plain show's 😅 for the logging, but I was requested to provide a more friendly output, so I tried using the pretty printer functions here, however, they leave the terminal escape codes in the log files, and thus, here's the PR.

Nevertheless, thinking about it now, (if approved), it may be better to delay a bit the merging of this until I get the green flag that I get to actually use them haha...

[tomjaguarpaw]

OK, makes sense. Can I suggest that in the first instance you take the low-tech hacky approach of just stripping everything in the string that occurs between pairs of \ESC and m¹? That will get you the same outcome, but avoid changing this library (which I'm hesitant to do at the moment).

Footnotes

1. That's the format for terminal escape codes that deal with presentation ↩

[0rphee]

Seems fine :) I'll see what I can do

[tomjaguarpaw]

Thanks. Keep me updated on how that goes and then we'll think about what's the best long-term solution.

[0rphee]

Sure, thanks. Your solution works well.