console is a library for Rust that provides access to various terminal features so you can build nicer looking command line interfaces. It comes with various tools and utilities for working with Terminals and formatting text.
Best paired with other libraries in the family:
The terminal is abstracted through the console::Term type. It can
either directly provide access to the connected terminal or by buffering
up commands. A buffered terminal will however not be completely buffered
on windows where cursor movements are currently directly passed through.
Example usage:
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
use console::Term;
let term = Term::stdout();
term.write_line("Hello World!")?;
thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(2000));
term.clear_line()?;console automaticaly detects when to use colors based on the tty flag. It also
provides higher level wrappers for styling text and other things that can be
displayed with the style function and utility types.
Example usage:
use console::style;
println!("This is {} neat", style("quite").cyan());You can also store styles and apply them to text later:
use console::Style;
let cyan = Style::new().cyan();
println!("This is {} neat", cyan.apply_to("quite"));The crate provides the function strip_ansi_codes to remove ANSI codes
from a string as well as measure_text_width to calculate the width of a
string as it would be displayed by the terminal. Both of those together
are useful for more complex formatting.
By default this crate depends on the unicode-width crate to calculate
the width of terminal characters. If you do not need this you can disable
the unicode-width feature which will cut down on dependencies.
License: MIT