Why does highline do coloring via ERb replacements and not via colored?

[Sleft]

Does Highline do coloring via ERb replacements and not via colored for any particular reason? Colored seems easier to use and cleaner and there is a fork that supports disabling of colors.

[JEG2]

The ERb replacement syntax exists in case you don't have a reference to the HighLine instance. It's not required though. You can alway use the instance:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

require "highline"

terminal = HighLine.new
terminal.say "#{terminal.color 'Red',      HighLine::RED}, "   +
             "#{terminal.color 'White',    HighLine::WHITE}, " +
             "and #{terminal.color 'Blue', HighLine::BLUE}."

You can use the class-level helper:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

require "highline/import"

say "#{HighLine.color 'Red',      HighLine::RED}, "   +
    "#{HighLine.color 'White',    HighLine::WHITE}, " +
    "and #{HighLine.color 'Blue', HighLine::BLUE}."

Or you can use the global instance that the import system relies on:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

require "highline/import"

say "#{$terminal.color 'Red',      HighLine::RED}, "   +
    "#{$terminal.color 'White',    HighLine::WHITE}, " +
    "and #{$terminal.color 'Blue', HighLine::BLUE}."

As for why doesn't HighLine use colored, it's probably just that it didn't exist back then or we didn't know about it. It looks like HighLine supports a much wider range of ANSI escape though. We also support color schemes.

It should be possible to use colored with HighLine though, if you desire. I don't think they would conflict.

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