Use ANSI escape codes with console/qtconsole

[kylebarron]

Jupyter console and qtconsole support the use of ANSI escape codes to "format" text. See jupyter/qtconsole#273. Apparently bold only works in the console and not qtconsole, though underline works in both.

We could use this to display somewhat-formatted help in (qt)console. Though it might be too much effort.

What do you think @mcaceresb?

List of ANSI escape codes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4842424/list-of-ansi-color-escape-sequences

[mcaceresb]

Too muh effort, tbh. We'd have to parse the help file with no API. If pandoc has a html to ASCII escapes, on the other hand...

[kylebarron]

Well we could use the HTML and convert <b>bold text</b> to whatever that is in ANSI...

[mcaceresb]

Is that feasible? I suppose if you're just doing italics, bold, and underline maybe... Now that you mention it, is there a lot more than that in the HTML files? I guess all the formatted tables and lines, but that wouldn't translate into ANSI codes anyway, right?

[kylebarron]

Yeah it's pretty much just italics, bold and underline