crossterm

Cross platform terminal library rust

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Cross-platform Terminal Manipulation Library

Have you ever been disappointed when a terminal library for the Rust language was only written for UNIX systems?
Crossterm provides clearing, input handling, styling, cursor movement and terminal actions for both
Windows and UNIX systems.

Crossterm aims to be simple and easy to call in code. Through the simplicity of Crossterm, you do not have to
worry about the platform you are working with.

This crate supports all UNIX and Windows terminals down to Windows 7 (not all terminals are tested,
see Tested Terminals for more info).

It's highly recommended to read the
Upgrade from 0.13 to 0.14
documentation, which explains everything you need to know.

Table of Contents

Features

  • Cross-platform
  • Multi-threaded (send, sync)
  • Detailed documentation
  • Few dependencies
  • Full control over writing and flushing output buffer
  • Cursor
    • Move the cursor N times (up, down, left, right)
    • Move to previous / next line
    • Move to column
    • Set/get the cursor position
    • Store the cursor position and restore to it later
    • Hide/show the cursor
    • Enable/disable cursor blinking (not all terminals do support this feature)
  • Styled output
    • Foreground color (16 base colors)
    • Background color (16 base colors)
    • 256 (ANSI) color support (Windows 10 and UNIX only)
    • RGB color support (Windows 10 and UNIX only)
    • Text attributes like bold, italic, underscore, crossed, etc
  • Terminal
    • Clear (all lines, current line, from cursor down and up, until new line)
    • Scroll up, down
    • Set/get the terminal size
    • Exit current process
    • Alternate screen
    • Raw screen
  • Input
    • Input Events
    • Mouse Events (press, release, position, button, drag)
    • Terminal Resize Events
    • Advanced modifier (SHIFT, ALT, CTRL) support for both mouse and key events and
    • futures Stream (feature 'event-stream')
    • Poll/read API

Tested Terminals

  • Windows Powershell
    • Windows 10 (Pro)
  • Windows CMD
    • Windows 10 (Pro)
    • Windows 8.1 (N)
  • Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
    • Ubuntu 17.10
  • (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
  • Linux Mint

This crate supports all UNIX terminals and Windows terminals down to Windows 7; however, not all of the
terminals have been tested. If you have used this library for a terminal other than the above list without
issues, then feel free to add it to the above list - I really would appreciate it!

Getting Started

[dependencies]
crossterm = "0.14"
use std::io::{stdout, Write};

use crossterm::{
    execute,
    style::{Color, Print, ResetColor, SetBackgroundColor, SetForegroundColor},
    ExecutableCommand, Result,
};

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    // using the macro
    execute!(
        stdout(),
        SetForegroundColor(Color::Blue),
        SetBackgroundColor(Color::Red),
        Print("Styled text here."),
        ResetColor
    )?;

    // or using functions
    stdout()
        .execute(SetForegroundColor(Color::Blue))?
        .execute(SetBackgroundColor(Color::Red))?
        .execute(Print("Styled text here."))?
        .execute(ResetColor)?;

    Ok(())
}

Checkout this list with all possible commands.

Feature Flags

To optional feature flags.

[dependencies.crossterm]
version = "0.14"
features = ["event-stream"] 
```, Feature, Description, :--, :--, `event-stream`, `futures::Stream` producing `Result<Event>`., ### Other Resources

- [API documentation](https://docs.rs/crossterm/)
- [Examples repository](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/examples)

## Used By

- [Broot](https://dystroy.org/broot/)
- [Cursive](https://github.com/gyscos/Cursive)
- [TUI](https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs)
- [Rust-sloth](https://github.com/jonathandturner/rust-sloth/tree/crossterm-port)

## Contributing
  
We highly appreciate when anyone contributes to this crate. Before you do, please,
read the [Contributing](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines. 

## Authors

* **Timon Post** - *Project Owner & creator*

## License

This project, `crossterm` and all its sub-crates: `crossterm_screen`, `crossterm_cursor`, `crossterm_style`,
`crossterm_input`, `crossterm_terminal`, `crossterm_winapi`, `crossterm_utils` are licensed under the MIT
License - see the [LICENSE](https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm/blob/master/LICENSE) file for details.

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