Is it possible to get rid of these excess escape sequences?
holland11 opened this issue · 4 comments
In my ~/.zshrc I have
autoload -U colors
colors
PROMPT="%{$fg[yellow]%}%T %{$fg[cyan]%}%~"$'\n'"%{$fg[yellow]%}> "%{$'\e[00m'%}
This produces the output shown here
When I log my terminal buffer, this turns into
Using the ANSI Colors preview, it now looks like
which is certainly an improvement, but there are quite a few escape sequences still in here that make it hard to read. Is there a way with this extension (or could there be?) or any other way unrelated to this extension that I could conveniently get rid of them all?
Well I found a tool ansifilter that removes all ANSI escape sequences from a text file. This cleans up the log to be readable, but it obviously removes the escape sequences that this extension uses to add colours. It's the main thing I was after though (clean + readable).
There is a read-only preview mode that hides the escapes. Press F1 - ANSI Colors: Open Preview to open it.
Hiding the escapes while keeping the file editable and properly colored is currently not possible.
The extension only interprets/hides the Select Graphic Rendition escapes. This is by design.
The problem with some escapes showing up in the read-only preview should be fixed in the latest extension version.