Term::ANSIColor Change History

2008-09-14  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Add faint as a synonym for dark and improve the documentation of text attributes.

• t/pod-spelling.t: New check to spell-check POD documentation using ispell with Pod::Spell.
• ANSIColor.pm: Fix spelling and markup errors in documentation and add stop-words where appropriate.

2007-04-22  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.12 released.

2007-03-23  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Use the right syntax for internal POD links. Thanks, Rafael Garcia-Suarez.

2007-02-10  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Add cyan and white to the list of supported attributes. Not sure how I managed to omit them before.

2006-07-12  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.11 released.

2006-06-22  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Clarify in the documentation the behavior of terminals when background colors are set across newlines, and rewrite some of the examples to avoid doing things that confuse the terminal. Fix a couple of spelling errors.

• test.pl: Moved to...
• t/basic.t: ...here.
• t/pod.t: New test for POD validity.

2005-08-21  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.10 released.

• ANSIColor.pm (colored): Fix the $EACHLINE support to work properly with a line consisting solely of "0". Remove Zenin's now-defunct e-mail address from the documentation.
• test.pl: Test 0 and the empty string in combination with $EACHLINE.

• tests/ansicolor: Add terminal test file from Joe Smith.
• tests/vt100-torture: Likewise.
• tests/README: Add an explanation of the test files.

2004-12-03  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.09 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Add compatibility information for Mac OS X Terminal from Daniel Lindsley.

2004-02-20  Russ Allbery

• test.pl: Always use eq, not ==, for string comparisons.

2004-02-19  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.08 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Add DARK to %EXPORT_TAGS and add CYAN and WHITE to the list of documented constants.
• test.pl: Add a test for DARK. Redo the leading comment.

2003-03-25  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.07 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Add PuTTY, Windows telnet, and Cygwin OpenSSH information to the terminal emulators table, and update the URL to the ECMA standard.

2002-12-09  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.06 released to synchronize the version on CPAN with the version in Perl core.

• ANSIColor.pm: Fix typo in L<> link in documentation.

2002-06-28  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.05 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Update the formatting style, add a pointer to the module web site, use L<> for URLs, and use naked <>s where permissible rather than E<lt> and E<gt>. Renamed LICENSE to COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE.

2002-02-14  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Added a mention of the specific Windows consoles that don't work with this module.

2001-07-10  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.04 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Add documentation, examples, and diagnostics for uncolor. Document ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED. Add information about the relevant standards for these escape sequences and the additional ones that aren't supported by this module. Add a pointer to the relevant standards. Add a LICENSE section. Update Zenin's e-mail address.

• ANSIColor.pm (AUTOLOAD): Add support for ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED.
(color): Likewise.
(colored): Likewise.
• test.pl: Add tests for ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED.

• ANSIColor.pm (uncolor): New function.
• test.pl: Add a test for it.

2000-08-06  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.03 released.

• Makefile.PL: Install in the Perl library directory for Perl versions >= 5.6.0.

• test.pl: Added a new test for the array reference syntax for colored.

• ANSIColor.pm: Changed $VERSION to a static string. Added dark to the attributes. Updated the documentation to include a table of supported attributes on different terminal emulators, to add dark, to document the new optional way to call colored, and to mark the diagnostics as fatal errors or warnings.
(colored): Allow the attributes to be passed as an initial array reference as well as a final list, and for that calling syntax take the rest of the arguments as text to be colored.

1998-11-27  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.02 released.

• Makefile.PL: Added a 5.005-only section giving ABSTRACT and AUTHOR settings for generating a PPD to go with a binary distribution or the Perl Resource Kits.

1998-04-14  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: croak() instead of die() on AUTOLOAD failure to get the right error text, fixed a bunch of typos in the documentation, added a quote.

1997-12-10  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.01 released.

• ANSIColor.pm (color): Carp::croak() isn't predeclared, so it needs parens around its argument. This bug will only show up in versions of Perl >5.004_04 since up until then strict.pm imports Carp which predeclares the function.

1997-11-29  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 1.00 released.

• Makefile.PL: Now gets version information from the module, has the correct rules to build a distribution.

• test.pl: Comments trimmed, minor test modifications.

• ANSIColor.pm: Changed my e-mail address, fixed to deal correctly with trailing delimiters when EACHLINE is being used, die() changed to croak() if the caller uses an invalid attribute name, getting $VERSION from RCS updated to my current method, source detabified.

• test.pl: Added test for EACHLINE with trailing delimiters.

1997-02-17  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 0.9 released.

• ANSIColor.pm: Changed the runtime error message to start with an uppercase letter, reworked the documentation considerably including adding more comparison between the two interfaces, fixing some formatting bugs, fixing a typo, adding more diagnostics, and generally being more verbose.

1997-01-08  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: Version 0.8 released.

• test.pl: Fixed the test numbering in the BEGIN block.

• test.pl: Reformatted and commented to fit my programming style.

• ANSIColor.pm: Changed the method by which $VERSION is set so that it will always have two digits after the decimal point.

• test.pl: New file.

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.7] Changed the codes so that reset is always consistantly "\e[0m".

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.6] Added $EACHLINE and support to colored() for it so that attributes can be reset around every newline (or other line delimiter -- we're flexible). Documented this as well.

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.5] Changed implementation of the constants to autoloaded subs, added the $AUTORESET variable for use with the constants, and documented this.

1996-12-07  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.4] Added POD documentation.

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.3] Added constant forms, modified to allow a space-separated string of attributes to be passed to color() and colored(), added Zenin to the credits.

1996-12-04  Russ Allbery

• ANSIColor.pm: [Revision 0.2] Changed return syntax and check for the null attribute string.

• ANSIColor.pm: New file.