back FmtStr objects with Blessed/Blessings colorstring output #80

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1. thomasballinger commented on Nov 3, 2015

   

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   The weakest version of this would be just ripping out termformatconstants.py, but there's a lot of other duplicated work too.

   Another option would be completely doing away with our own internal representation, and reparsing terminal-formatted strings each time we do math with them.

   FmtStrs are nice for doing things like "start with a line, then stick the text "hello" in bold into spaces 10-16 of it. I'm not sure how this works with the fact that YOU DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW how big a string is until you're talking about a specific terminal (double width characters). Cutting into it is going to be more complicated.
2. thomasballinger commented on Nov 3, 2015

   

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   This sounds harder and less important than fixing the input code.
3. thomasballinger commented on Nov 4, 2015

   

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   Most important is giving parsing input character sequences and understanding them via blessed - let's start with that
4. thomasballinger commented on Nov 4, 2015

   

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   blocked on Blessed getting better parsing so that code can be used to produce FmtStrs
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