Re: The joy of formatting

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Am 30.04.2026 um 11:11 schrieb albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl:
> In article <69f2ba42$1@news.ausics.net>, dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29/04/2026 11:41 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>> Formerly I had this clunky handling of colors.
>>> ...
>>> Now if you have FORMAT this becomes a lot less clunky.
>>
>> I agree the original was clunky.  But whether FORMAT was necessary,
>> I'm less certain.  Naturally, I'm too lazy to show an alternative.
>> But I can for your last example, as I'm sure can others ...
>>
>>> : default-bw "%e [00m" FORMAT TYPE ;
>>
>> : default-bw ." \1b[00m" ;
>>
> Now consider this:
> : AT-XY   1+ SWAP 1+ SWAP "%e [%d ;%d H" .FORMAT ; \ ISO


While

AT-XY  \ ( col row -- ) 10.6.1.0742 set text cursor coordinates

is standard,

XY  \ ( -- col row ) get text cursor coordinates

is much more interesting to implement.  ;-)

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The joy of formatting albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-04-29 15:41 +0200
  Re: The joy of formatting dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 12:11 +1000
    Re: The joy of formatting Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 09:48 +0200
    Re: The joy of formatting albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-04-30 11:06 +0200
      Re: The joy of formatting Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 23:34 +0200
    Re: The joy of formatting albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-04-30 11:11 +0200
      Re: The joy of formatting dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 23:58 +1000
        Re: The joy of formatting albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-04-30 18:11 +0200
          Re: The joy of formatting dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 09:57 +1000
            Re: The joy of formatting anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-01 06:03 +0000
              Re: The joy of formatting dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 23:09 +1000
                Re: The joy of formatting anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-03 14:11 +0000
                Re: The joy of formatting dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 11:02 +1000
      Re: The joy of formatting minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-04-30 20:47 +0200
        Re: The joy of formatting Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-05-03 09:07 -0500

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