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+! Copyright (C) 2014 John Benediktsson
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license
+
+USING: accessors arrays assocs destructors formatting fry io
+io.streams.string io.styles kernel math math.functions
+math.vectors namespaces sequences strings strings.tables ;
+
+IN: io.streams.ansi
+
+<PRIVATE
+
+CONSTANT: colors H{
+
+    ! System colors (8 colors)
+    { {   0   0   0 } 0 }
+    { { 170   0   0 } 1 }
+    { {   0 170   0 } 2 }
+    { { 170  85   0 } 3 }
+    { {   0   0 170 } 4 }
+    { { 170   0 170 } 5 }
+    { {   0 170 170 } 6 }
+    { { 170 170 170 } 7 }
+
+    ! "Bright" version of 8 colors
+    { {  85  85  85 } 8 }
+    { { 255  85  85 } 9 }
+    { {  85 255  85 } 10 }
+    { { 255 255  85 } 11 }
+    { {  85  85 255 } 12 }
+    { { 255  85 255 } 13 }
+    { {  85 255 255 } 14 }
+    { { 255 255 255 } 15 }
+}
+
+: color>rgb ( color -- rgb )
+    [ red>> ] [ green>> ] [ blue>> ] tri
+    [ 255 * round >integer ] tri@ 3array ;
+
+: color>ansi ( color -- ansi bold? )
+    color>rgb '[ _ distance ]
+    colors [ keys swap infimum-by ] [ at ] bi
+    dup 8 >= [ 8 - t ] [ f ] if ;
+
+: color>foreground ( color -- string )
+    color>ansi [ 30 + ] [ "m" ";1m" ? ] bi* "\e[%d%s" sprintf ;
+
+: color>background ( color -- string )
+    color>ansi [ 40 + ] [ "m" ";1m" ? ] bi* "\e[%d%s" sprintf ;
+
+: font-styles ( font-style -- string )
+    H{
+        { bold "\e[1m" }
+        { italic "\e[3m" }
+        { bold-italic "\e[1m\e[3m" }
+    } at "" or ;
+
+TUPLE: ansi stream ;
+
+C: <ansi> ansi
+
+M: ansi stream-write1 stream>> stream-write1 ;
+M: ansi stream-write stream>> stream-write ;
+M: ansi stream-flush stream>> stream-flush ;
+M: ansi stream-nl stream>> stream-nl ;
+
+M: ansi stream-format
+    [
+        [ foreground of [ color>foreground ] [ "" ] if* ]
+        [ background of [ color>background ] [ "" ] if* ]
+        [ font-style of [ font-styles ] [ "" ] if* ]
+        tri 3append [ "\e[0m" surround ] unless-empty
+    ] dip stream>> stream-write ;
+
+M: ansi make-span-stream
+    swap <style-stream> <ignore-close-stream> ;
+
+M: ansi make-block-stream
+    swap <style-stream> <ignore-close-stream> ;
+
+! FIXME: color codes take up formatting space
+
+M: ansi stream-write-table
+    [
+        drop
+        [ [ stream>> >string ] map ] map format-table
+        [ nl ] [ write ] interleave
+    ] with-output-stream* ;
+
+M: ansi make-cell-stream
+     2drop <string-writer> <ansi> ;
+
+M: ansi dispose drop ;
+
+PRIVATE>
+
+: with-ansi ( quot -- )
+    output-stream get <ansi> swap with-output-stream* ; inline
diff --git a/extra/io/streams/ansi/authors.txt b/extra/io/streams/ansi/authors.txt
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+John Benediktsson
diff --git a/extra/io/streams/ansi/summary.txt b/extra/io/streams/ansi/summary.txt
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+ANSI color implementation of formatted stream protocol