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#prettytty

Robert Grimmapparebit
2025-01-31

As with other crates, you write zero-sized structs to execute commands. But it goes further: To perform a query, the same struct also knows how to parse a response from an ANSI escape sequence. And the runtime knows how to recognize those. 💥 80+ builtin commands! 🎉 (3/3)

// Open connection to terminal device let options = Options::default(); let tty = Connection::with_options(options)?; let (mut input, mut output) = tty.io(); // Execute commands, i.e., write display & flush output.exec(MoveToColumn::<17>)?; output.exec(RequestCursorPosition)?; // Scan response as control, payload token let payload = input.read_sequence( RequestCursorPosition.control())?; // Parse payload into position let position = RequestCursorPosition.parse(payload)?; assert_eq!(position.1, 17);
Robert Grimmapparebit
2025-01-31

Prettypretty's version optionally uses the new crate for interacting with the . Prettytty distinguishes itself from other terminal crates by being cross-platform while also lightweight, with no dependency other than libc/windows-sys. (2/3)
crates.io/crates/prettytty

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