I’ve been playing around with Elixir package and when I run my tests via Cmd+B the output is colored, which works in terminal, but not in the sublime buffer (Sublime Text 2)
Is there a way to fix this? I only found some solutions for the RubyTest package, but it doesn’t work. I’m also getting a little different output in Sublime Text 3, is there a way to supress those lines at the end?
I’m also looking to get this to work and haven’t found anything useful yet. Please post back if you figure something out.
Hint: recently found out that build systems support setting the syntax of the output panel.
It looks like Sublime Text simply doesn’t support ANSI color codes.
What I did was to download ansifilter from andre-simon.de/doku/ansifilt … filter.php and modify the build output to filter the sequences.
This is an example for Bash Build System
[code]{
“cmd” : “bash”, “$file”],
“selector” : “source.shell”,
"windows": {
"path" : "$path;\\program files\\tools\\ansifilter",
"cmd" : "bash", "$file", "|", "ansifilter"],
"shell" : true
}
}[/code]
By the way: ansifilter needs two Mingw DLLs that are not included
I just setup my Sublime Text 2 with build settings for both CasperJS and CasperJS test and was able to specify --no-colors options.
Here are the details: gist.github.com/morozgrafix/9626928
the consoel output is highlighted by an specified tmLanguage so you could create one which has token eg
<dict>
<key>begin</key>
<string>esc[31M</string>
<key>beginCaptures</key>
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>hide</string>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>end</key>
<string>(?=esc\[)</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>red</string>
</dict>
[quote=“valerij_”]the consoel output is highlighted by an specified tmLanguage so you could create one which has token eg
<dict>
<key>begin</key>
<string>esc[31M</string>
<key>beginCaptures</key>
<dict>
<key>1</key>
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>hide</string>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>end</key>
<string>(?=esc\[)</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>red</string>
</dict>
[/quote]
How do we use this? I’ve tried creating an ansi.tmLanguage file and then setting “syntax”: “ansi” in my build system but it just says Error loading syntax file ansi.
The unofficial docs unfortunately don’t show an example of how to use the syntax field.
I was able to display ANSI colors using the ANSIescape plugin, see some more details in this issue
I know this thread is old, but in case anyone is wondering, installing the ANSIEsacpe via PAckage Control as suggested by a previous poster didn’t help with build output, but the issue he pointed me to did. After installing the ANSIEscape plugin via Package Control I went to the GitHub repo for ANSISublime (appears to be same as ANSIEscape). I perused the files and I noticed the ansi.py version on the GitHub repo includes the AnsiColorBuild command entry and the one installed via Package Control does not. To fix:
I downloaded the master branch zip file from ANSISublime GitHub
extracted it’s contents to a local folder
re-zipped the contents of the extracted main folder (excluding the folder itself)
renamed it to ANSIescape.sublime-package
copied it over top the existing one in the ST3 installed packages folder
edited my custom Grunt.sublime-build
file with the following lines
"target": "ansi_color_build",
"syntax": "Packages/ANSIescape/ANSI.tmLanguage",and now I can see the color coded output in my ST3 build console.
@davehibshman I’ve created an account just to thank you 
Worked pretty well for me too, got gulp colored output now !
Sorry guys, I guess it was my fault. I merged the pull request a while ago but forgot to tag the release and PM only installs tagged releases.
It should be fixed now.
Sublime Text 3 on my computer can’t work properly even when I just want a file containing ANSI escape code to be colored by ANSIescape plugin…
When I switched the syntax to ANSI, the file indeed became read-only, but still not colored, displaying garbage like ESC.
I have totally no idea about how to fix this… I have only installed it from package control so far and just want a text file to display in colors…
Did I miss something fundamental to install before using this plugin?
Please help… THANKS!