rust-ansi-term

Rust library for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)

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Rust library for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)

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Observed mentions: 2016-07-28 07:21:27 UTC to 2021-06-15 20:53:50 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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da39a3ee·Jun 15, 2021

I find Rust crate code to be quite difficult to read sometimes because it contains a lot of comments and executable examples destined to be incorporated into auto-published (and auto-executed) documentation. That's a fine thing of course, but it would be nice if there were facilities to see "just the code and code comments". A somewhat random example is https://github.com/ogham/rust-ansi-term/blob/master/src/styl...

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JoshTriplett·Jul 28, 2016

> We have one string type defined in std The standard library also includes Path/PathBuf and OsStr/OsString. And third-party libraries also use [u8] for bytestrings. It'd be nice to improve handling for user-supplied text where you can't assume UTF-8. For instance, git2-rs provides the contents of diffs as [u8], because it can't assume the diffed files use UTF-8. That led to this commit today: https://github.com/ogham/rust-ansi-term/pull/19/commits/a0da... That felt like a lot of boilerplate to abstract between str and [u8]. Is there a better way to solve that problem? (As much as I'd love to just say "use UTF-8", that would break on many git repositories, including git.git and linux.git.)

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