Re: colorizing printfs

[Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/11/24 07:37, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:

> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 2:54 AM Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > ~⦒printf '%s.%s.%s\n' "${(%):-%F{blue}%B}" "test" "${(%):-%b}${(%):-%f}"
> > > %B}.test.
> > >         
> > You probably have a badly made / cargo culted precmd() function
> > active.
> >       
>

I am sorry, I did not follow this.

> That output is actually expected. The right curly must be escaped.
>
>     printf '%s.%s.%s\n' "${(%):-%F{blue\}%B}" "test" "${(%):-%b}${(%):-%f}"
>

Yes, this works,  

Is this something that I missed in the documentation? 

Many useful, useable variants, thank you for these.

> However, it's easier to use `print -P`:
>
>     print -P '%F{blue}%Btest%b%f'
>
> Or, when printing $var:
>
>     print -rP '%F{blue}%B'${var//\%/%%}'%b%f'
>
> Alternatively:
>
>     print -Pn '%F{blue}%B'
>     print -rn -- $var
>     print -P '%b%f'
>
> Another alternative:
>
>     print -r -- ${(%):-'%F{blue}%B'${var//\%/%%}'%b%f'}
>

Kannan