ruby-terminfo - terminfo binding for Ruby

Author

Tanaka Akira <[email protected]>

Home Page

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

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"], STDOUT)
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/classes/TermInfo.html or www.a-k-r.org/ruby-terminfo/rdoc/classes/TermInfo.html

License

The modified BSD licence

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