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diff --git a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst index ada3a2f6..713e44e6 100644 --- a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst +++ b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ instead. These methods have these advantages: Colored Output ============== -The output methods in the previous section all honor the ``colors`` setting, +The output methods in the previous section all honor the ``allow_ansi`` setting, which has three possible values: Never @@ -152,14 +152,17 @@ Terminal (the default value) poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() do not strip any ANSI escape sequences when the output is a terminal, but if the output is a pipe or a file the escape sequences are stripped. If you want colorized - output you must add ANSI escape sequences, preferably using some python - color library like `plumbum.colors`, `colorama`, `blessings`, or - `termcolor`. + output you must add ANSI escape sequences using either cmd2's internal ansi + module or another color library such as `plumbum.colors`, `colorama`, or `colored`. Always poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() never strip ANSI escape sequences, regardless of the output destination +Colored and otherwise styled output can be generated using the `ansi.style()` function: + +.. automethod:: cmd2.ansi.style + .. _quiet: |