Colors

Seeing Colors

LaMush makes heavy use of ansi colors. We color code a good many things on the grid, and bold and colors are used in many places for emphasis.

Command	Usage
@set me=ansi	Enables you to see colors on your MUSH screen.

Unfortunately, setting colors sometimes makes things hard to read for people with various types of terminal programs or clients. If you are having trouble, for example, reading non-bold red on a black background, this probably has to do with your settings in your client or terminal program. These settings will often allow you to adjust what an ansi-color (like for example 'red') shows up as, and make it brighter or darker.

Writing Colors

ansi(<codes>,<string>[,<codes>,<string>[,…]])	This allows you to highlight a string using ANSI terminal effects. The string is terminated with a "return to normal" code, and the codes are utilized in the order they are specified.
%<color-code><text>%xn	The percent substitution %x<color code> can be used instead of ansi(), and is more efficient. The %xn (to return to normal) is not necessary, but if it is not specified the ansi color codes will continue to the end of the string.

Example:

[ansi(rBf,Color!)]
is equivalent to:
%xr%xB%xfColor!%xn

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Ansi Codes

Format

f	flash
h	hilite
i	inverse
n	normal
u	underline

Colors

x	black foreground	X	black background
r	red foreground	R	red background
g	green foreground	G	green background
y	yellow foreground	Y	yellow background
b	blue foreground	B	blue background
m	magenta foreground	M	magenta background
c	cyan foreground	C	cyan background
w	white foreground	W	white background