vty is a terminal interface library.

Project is hosted on github.com: https://github.com/coreyoconnor/vty

git clone git://github.com/coreyoconnor/vty.git

Features

• Automatic handling of window resizes.

• Supports Unicode characters on output, automatically setting and resetting UTF-8 mode for xterm. Other terminals are assumed to support

• Efficient output.

• Minimizes repaint area, thus virtually eliminating the flicker problem that plagues ncurses programs.

• A pure, compositional interface for efficiently constructing display images.

• Automatically decodes keyboard keys into (key,[modifier]) tuples.

• Automatically supports refresh on Ctrl-L.

• Automatically supports timeout after 50ms for lone ESC (a barely noticable delay)

• Interface is designed for relatively easy compatible extension.

• Supports all ANSI SGR-modes (defined in console_codes(4)) with a type-safe interface.

• Properly handles cleanup.

Known Issues

• The character encoding of the output terminal is assumed to be UTF-8.

• Minimal support for special keys on terminals other than the linux-console. (F1-5 and arrow keys should work, but anything shifted isn't likely to.)

• Uses the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl to find the current window size, which appears to be limited to Linux and *BSD.

Platform Support

Posix Terminals

Uses terminfo to determine terminal protocol. Some special rules for Mac terminal applications. The special rules might be invalid on newer Mac OS.

Windows

None!