color: allow colors to be prefixed with "reset"

"reset" was previously treated as a standalone special color name
representing `\e[m`. Now, it can apply to other color properties,
allowing exact specifications without implicit attribute inheritance.

For example, "reset green" now renders `\e[;32m`, which is interpreted
as "reset everything; then set foreground to green". This means the
background and other attributes are also reset to their defaults.

Previously, this was impossible to represent in a single color:
"reset" could be specified alone, or a color with attributes, but some
thing like clearing a background color were impossible.

There is a separate change that introduces the "default" color name to
assist with that, but even then, the above could only to be represented
by explicitly disabling each of the attributes:
  green default no-bold no-dim no-italic no-ul no-blink no-reverse no-strike

Signed-off-by: Robert Estelle <robertestelle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Robert Estelle
2021-10-26 01:03:47 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 05f1f41c9b
commit de658515ae
4 changed files with 21 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ struct strbuf;
/*
* The maximum length of ANSI color sequence we would generate:
* - leading ESC '[' 2
* - reset ';' .................1
* - attr + ';' 2 * num_attr (e.g. "1;")
* - no-attr + ';' 3 * num_attr (e.g. "22;")
* - fg color + ';' 17 (e.g. "38;2;255;255;255;")