ANSI Colors

ANSI Color styling for your text editor.

Basic usage

Select the ANSI Text language mode to highlight text marked up with ANSI escapes. Files with the .ans and .ansi extensions will be highlighted by default.

Run the ANSI Text: Open Preview command for the prettified read-only preview.

Clicking the preview icon in the editor title will open the preview in a new tab. Alt-click to open in the current tab.

The extension fetches the colors from the current theme and aims to look as good as the built-in terminal.

Supported ANSI escape codes

Basic colors and formatting:

8-bit colors:

24-bit colors:

Custom file icon

You can add an icon to the ANSI text files by using the vscode-icons extension:

{
  // add this to your settings file
  "vsicons.associations.files": [
    {
      "icon": "text", // or any other icon from vscode-icons
      "extensions": ["ans", "ansi"],
      "format": "svg"
    }
  ]
}