[Remind-Fans] colorizing caldendars

[Ruthard Baudach]

>== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von  David F. Skoll vom 2012-04-30 22:29:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:53:04 +0200
> Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > I'd prefer to put the ANSI Escape Sequences in user defined functions
> > -- something like
> 
> I see your point, but writing the code to parse ANSI escape sequences
> is quite a bit of work.  And it results in calendar entries that
> aren't usable with other back-ends like tkremind or rem2html.
> 
> Maybe as a compromise I could add another % sequence to indicate
> zero-width display.  So something like:
> 
> SET esc char(27)
> REM ... MSG %{[esc + "["]0;35m*%} ...
> 
> Remind would remove %{ and %} from the output, but would count anything
> in between them as having zero width for the purpose of calendar alignment.
That would be perfect!


Yours, Ruthard