Crossterm is a pure-rust, terminal manipulation library that makes it possible to write cross-platform text-based interfaces.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Cross-platform.
- Multi-threaded (send, sync).
- Detailed documentation.
- Few dependencies.
- Full control over writing and flushing output buffer.
- Is tty.
- 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.
- Set terminal title.
- Enable/disable line wrapping.
- Event:
- 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.
Website: github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm
Support:
Developer: Timon
License: MIT License
Crossterm is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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