ansito

Translate ANSI codes to any other format.

Currently, only Conky format is supported.

Requirements

ansito requires Python 3.6 or above.

# install pyenv
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv ~/.pyenv

# setup pyenv (you should also put these three lines in .bashrc or similar)
export PATH="${HOME}/.pyenv/bin:${PATH}"
export PYENV_ROOT="${HOME}/.pyenv"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

# install Python 3.6
pyenv install 3.6.8

# make it available globally
pyenv global system 3.6.8

Installation

With pip:

python3.6 -m pip install ansito

With pipx:

# install pipx with the recommended method
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cs01/pipx/master/get-pipx.py | python3

pipx install --python python3.6 ansito

Usage (as a library)

TODO

Usage (command-line)

usage: ansito [-h] FILENAME

positional arguments:
  FILENAME    File to translate, or - for stdin.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Example:

command-that-output-colors | ansito -

Real-word example with taskwarrior in a Conky configuration file:

${texecpi 60 flock ~/.task task limit:10 rc.defaultwidth:80 rc._forcecolor:on rc.verbose:affected,blank list | ansito - | sed -r 's/([^ ])#/\1\\#/g'