Crayonizer can color the output of command-line programs. It can also translate keypresses to something the program understands, play sounds, set xterm titlebars, iconify/deiconify/maximize xterm windows, set xterm fonts or foreground color or background color, add various types of statusbar, etc, etc.
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2.523 Feb 2024 19:45
minor feature:
Deal with race condition where we wait for child process to exit before we've sent it SIGTERM, causing a hung process.
Add --enable-fortify --enable-stack-protect and --enable-harden to./configure.
2.424 Jan 2024 03:15
minor bugfix:
Long-standing with xterm query responses coming back from terminal.
Set pty of crayonized command to be the controlling tty.
Upgrade to libUseful-5.
Support compiling against installed libuseful instead of bundled.
Don't clobber installed /etc/crayonizer.d files when 'make install'.
2.127 Oct 2018 21:18
major feature:
Command-lines can now be rewritten, allowing for example, the adding of '-p', '-i' and '-j' options to sftp. Some significant bugfixes for xterm features.
1.010 Sep 2016 23:13
major feature:
A lot of new features. Keypress translation, lots of xterm controls, function calls, timers, types of 'statusbar' at the bottom of the screen including info-bars, querybars, and select-bars.