An ANSI coloring application

Coloring an ANSI terminal application is handled by a variety of code before and after a section of text you want colored. This chapter will explore a basic coloring mechanism to color text red or plain. For a complete application, take a look at https://github.com/agtorre/gocolorize, which supports many more colors and text types and also implements the fmt.Formatter interface for ease of printing.

Getting ready

Refer to the Getting ready section's steps in the Using command-line flags recipe.

How to do it...

These steps cover writing and running your application:

1. From your terminal/console application, create and navigate to the chapter2/ansicolor directory.
2. Copy tests from https://github.com/agtorre/go-cookbook/tree/master/chapter2/ansicolor, or use this as an exercise to write some of your own code!
3. Create a file called color.go with the following contents:

        package ansicolor

        import "fmt"

        //Color of text
        type Color int

        const...