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+ansi.js
+=========
+### Advanced ANSI formatting tool for Node.js
+
+`ansi.js` is a module for Node.js that provides an easy-to-use API for
+writing ANSI escape codes to `Stream` instances. ANSI escape codes are used to do
+fancy things in a terminal window, like render text in colors, delete characters,
+lines, the entire window, or hide and show the cursor, and lots more!
+
+#### Features:
+
+ * 256 color support for the terminal!
+ * Make a beep sound from your terminal!
+ * Works with *any* writable `Stream` instance.
+ * Allows you to move the cursor anywhere on the terminal window.
+ * Allows you to delete existing contents from the terminal window.
+ * Allows you to hide and show the cursor.
+ * Converts CSS color codes and RGB values into ANSI escape codes.
+ * Low-level; you are in control of when escape codes are used, it's not abstracted.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Install with `npm`:
+
+``` bash
+$ npm install ansi
+```
+
+
+Example
+-------
+
+``` js
+var ansi = require('ansi')
+ , cursor = ansi(process.stdout)
+
+// You can chain your calls forever:
+cursor
+ .red() // Set font color to red
+ .bg.grey() // Set background color to grey
+ .write('Hello World!') // Write 'Hello World!' to stdout
+ .bg.reset() // Reset the bgcolor before writing the trailing \n,
+ // to avoid Terminal glitches
+ .write('\n') // And a final \n to wrap things up
+
+// Rendering modes are persistent:
+cursor.hex('#660000').bold().underline()
+
+// You can use the regular logging functions, text will be green:
+console.log('This is blood red, bold text')
+
+// To reset just the foreground color:
+cursor.fg.reset()
+
+console.log('This will still be bold')
+
+// to go to a location (x,y) on the console
+// note: 1-indexed, not 0-indexed:
+cursor.goto(10, 5).write('Five down, ten over')
+
+// to clear the current line:
+cursor.horizontalAbsolute(0).eraseLine().write('Starting again')
+
+// to go to a different column on the current line:
+cursor.horizontalAbsolute(5).write('column five')
+
+// Clean up after yourself!
+cursor.reset()
+```
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+(The MIT License)
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.