[Remind-Fans] Determining if -@ was passed?

Dianne Skoll dianne at skoll.ca
Sun Oct 9 11:08:05 EDT 2022


On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 13:28:53 +0000
Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> Is there a way for a reminder file to determine of -@ was passed
> on the command-line?

Nope.  I could fix that.

[...]

> and then a color function c() that converts it to the corresponding
> ANSI sequence for the specified color-depth, letting me do things
> like

>   REM Oct 9 2022 MSG This is [c(Purple)]Purple text[c($DefaultColor)]?

That's a pretty good idea, and should not be too hard to implement.
I'd obviously call the function something more descriptive like "ansicolor"
but you could always:

FSET c(x) ansicolor(x)

if you want briefer REM commands.

Thanks for the idea!

Regards,

Dianne.


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