pony-terminfo

Let's do cool stuff in terminals!

Let's print "Greetings Pony!", but underline the word "Pony". And make it blue.

use "terminfo"

actor Main
  new create(env: Env) =>
    try
      let db = GetTerminalInfo(env)
      env.out.print("Greetings " + db.set_a_foreground(4) +
                    db.enter_underline_mode() + "Pony" +
                    db.exit_attribute_mode() + "!")
    end

This is a Pony reimplementation of terminfo/libtinfo.

Currently supports:

• Detect terminal type... okay, well, only from $TERM. And we only look for the entry in /usr/share/terminfo, but it could be in other places. (TODO.)
• Parse the corresponding compiled terminfo database and shove all the capabilities into a HashMap.
• Wrap it (with types!) so you don't have to hardcode strings yourself.
• Evaluate parameterized string capabilities (such as sgr/set_attributes).