aslpavel/surf-n-term

Rust library to interact with posix terminal

Surf-N-Term

This crate is used to interact with Posix terminal. It can be used to

• Read events from the terminal
• Send commands to the terminal
• Render on a surface which will be reconciled with current content of the terminal
• Issue direct commends to the terminal
• Supports kitty/sixel image protocol

Simple example

use surf_n_term::{Terminal, TerminalEvent, Error};

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    let ctrl_c = TerminalEvent::Key("ctrl+c".parse()?);
    let mut term = SystemTerminal::new()?;
    term.run_render(|term, event, mut view| -> Result<_, Error> {
        // This function will be executed on each event from terminal
        // - term  - implements Terminal trait
        // - event - is a TerminalEvent
        // - view  - is a Surface that can be used to render on, see render module for details
        match event {
            Some(event) if &event == &ctrl_c => {
                // exit if 'ctrl+c' is pressed
                Ok(TerminalAction::Quit(()))
            }
            _ => {
                // do some rendering by updating the view
                Ok(TerminalAction::Wait)
            },
        }
    })?;
    Ok(())
}

Full examples can be found in example submodule

$ cargo run --example mandelbrot
$ cargo run --example mouse
$ cargo run --example events

Used by

• you should checkout my sweep program to interactively filter through list of items