Pretty 🌸 Tty

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Prettytty is a lightweight and flexible terminal library for Rust that has only one low-level dependency, i.e., libc on Unix and windows-sys on Windows. Its API is clean and simple: Open a Connection to the terminal and share it across threads as needed. Write Commands to Output. Read Query responses from Input. Scan::read_token takes care of low-level UTF-8 and ANSI escape sequence decoding and Query::parse turns token payloads into objects. A cmd library with 70+ built-in commands covers basic needs and then some.

Example

Here's how the above mentioned abstractions are used in practice:

use prettytty::{Connection, Query, Scan};
use prettytty::cmd::{MoveToColumn, RequestCursorPosition};
use prettytty::opt::Options;

// Open a terminal connection with 1s timeout.
let tty = Connection::with_options(
    Options::builder().timeout(10).build())?;

let pos = {
    let (mut input, mut output) = tty.io();

    // Move cursor, issue query for position.
    output.exec(MoveToColumn(17))?;
    output.exec(RequestCursorPosition)?;

    // Read and parse response.
    let response = input.read_sequence(
        RequestCursorPosition.control())?;
    RequestCursorPosition.parse(response)?
};

assert_eq!(pos.1, 17);

Copyright 2024 Robert Grimm. The code in this repository has been released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.