ben-eb/gulp-cat

Option to display file contents in a particular color

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#4 opened on Aug 12, 2014

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Description

This is an Enhancement suggestion, but I don't know how to add the tag..

It would be great if we could set a color for the displayed file, so it doesn't get lost in the console amongst the other stuff.

I noticed you are using "process.stdout.write" to print out the contents of files.

So perhaps we could do something like:

var color       = require('ansi-color').set;
process.stdout.write(color("file contents in string format", some_ansi_color_string_var));

and then use gulp-cat like

gulp.task('taskname', function() {
    gulp.src('./README.md')
        .pipe(cat( { color: "blue" } ));
});

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Research direction
Look into using the 'chalk' or 'ansi color' npm package to add a color option to the gulp cat plugin. Modify the plugin to accept an options object with a color property, and apply the color to the output using process.stdout.write with ANSI escape codes.
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