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 recipe will explore a basic coloring mechanism that colors 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.

How to do it...

These steps cover writing and running your application:

1. From your Terminal or console application,createa new directory called~/projects/go-programming-cookbook/chapter2/ansicolor.
2. Navigate to this directory.
3. Run the following command:

          $ go mod init github.com/PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition/chapter2/ansicolor

        

You should see a file calledgo.modthat contains the following:

module github...