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dmd.console

Control the various text mode attributes, such as color, when writing text to the console.

Authors:

Walter Bright

License:

Boost License 1.0

Source console.d

Documentation https://dlang.org/phobos/dmd_console.html

Coverage https://codecov.io/gh/dlang/dmd/src/master/src/dmd/console.d

nothrow bool detectTerminal();

Tries to detect whether DMD has been invoked from a terminal.

Returns:

true if a terminal has been detected, false otherwise

nothrow @trusted bool detectColorPreference();

Tries to detect the preference for colorized console output based on the NO_COLOR environment variable: https://no-color.org/

Returns:

true if colorized console output is preferred

nothrow Console createConsole(FILE* fp);

Creates an instance of Console connected to stream fp.

Parameters:

FILE* fp io stream

Returns:

reference to created Console

Library Reference

dmd.console