bubblehouse

A few days ago, I found a handy script online that colorized the output of SVN status. It worked pretty well, but needed a little polish and a couple of tweaks to make it use more common Python idioms. Also, I fixed ANSI word-wrapping issues, created a configurable tab expansion feature (for better code alignment), added the 'colorizedSubcommands' sequence so that only applicable commands get colorized, and fixed subprocess calls so that piping through less will work (for example, try svn-color diff | less -r to see colorized diff output).

I hope you find my modifications useful. You can modify the colors used by looking up the ANSI color codes for your preferred color scheme and editing the 'statusColors' dictionary. Here's a useful reference for ANSI color values:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/colortable.gif

i've posted the code on snipplr, and it's also posted below after the break.

This is something I wrote over at DocForge, but I'm keeping it here for posterity. You never know what those crazy wiki-ers might do with it over there ;-)

I've got a directory full of eBooks in the godawful Microsoft .lit format. I had marked with the Finder labels the ones I've already read, and wanted to convert all the ones I hadn't read yet into a readable format.

After using the Spotlight UNIX tools and applying liberal amounts of command-line trickery, the end result was a rather beautiful pipeline, if I do say so myself.