ruby-terminfo - terminfo binding for Ruby

About

ruby-terminfo is a terminfo binding for Ruby

Home Page

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

Feature

• easy to use method, control, for combination of tigetstr/tparm/tputs
• low-level terminfo binding (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

• ruby : http://www.ruby-lang.org/

Download

• latest release: ruby-terminfo-0.2.tar.gz (sha256)
• development version: http://github.com/akr/ruby-terminfo

Install

% ruby extconf.rb
% make
% make install

Reference Manual

See 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.

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(The modified BSD licence)