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ruby-terminfo - terminfo bindings for Ruby

ruby-terminfo provides terminfo bindings for Ruby

Gem Version

Author

Tanaka Akira [email protected]

Home Page

http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-terminfo/

Features

  • Easy to use methods
    • control (combination of tigetstr/tparm/tputs)
  • Low-level terminfo bindings
    • setupterm
    • tigetflag
    • tigetnum
    • tigetstr
    • tparm
    • tputs
  • TIOCGWINSZ/TIOCSWINSZ ioctl for screen size
  • ctermid to avoid hardcoding /dev/tty
  • wcswidth to measure a string width in number of columns

Usage

Easy to use methods

require 'terminfo'

TermInfo.control("cuf", 7)    # cursor forward 7 columns
p TermInfo.screen_size        # use TIOCGWINSZ, LINES/COLUMNS env. or terminfo lines#/cols#

Low level methods

require 'terminfo'

t = TermInfo.new(ENV["TERM"], File.open(TermInfo.ctermid, "r+"))
print t.tputs(t.tparm(t.tigetstr("cuf"), 7), 1)  # cursor forward 7 columns
p TermInfo.tiocgwinsz(STDOUT)                    # use TIOCGWINSZ

Requirements

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Install

ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

Reference Manual

See rdoc/TermInfo.html or http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-terminfo/rdoc/TermInfo.html

License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

(1) Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. (2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. (3) The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

(The modified BSD licence)

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