Qalam ✏️

Qalam is a Go library for easy terminal styling.

Installation

go get github.com/iskaa02/qalam

Usage

func main(){
	// this will output "a red text" with red in terminal
	// you can use qalam.Sprintf() if you don't want to print yet
	qalam.Printf("[red]a red %s[/red]","text")
}

Examples

Multiple styles

qalam.Printf("[b s]bold and strikethrough[/b s]")

outputs: bold and strikethrough

Composing styles

qalam.Printf("[b]bold only [i]bold and italic[/i][/b]")

outputs: bold only bold and italic

Emoji

// outputs "this is a vampire -> 🧛"
qalam.Printf("this is a vampire ->[:vampire:]")

Style

You can use style function to apply style to string

// this is equivalent for qalam.Sprintf("[bold]this text is bold[/bold]") 
qalam.Style("this text is bold","bold")

Emoji

You can use get emoji function to return an emoji

// returns '🍎'
qalam.Emoji("red_apple")

What does the Qalam mean

Qalam in Arabic means pencil

Compatibility

ANSI work a bit different depending on the operating system, this implementation should work for MacOS, Linux and Windows, Although it's only been tested on Linux.