Have you ever been disappointed when a terminal library for the Rust language was only written for UNIX systems? Crossterm provides clearing, input handling, styling, cursor movement and terminal actions for both Windows and UNIX systems.
Crossterm aims to be simple and easy to call in code. Through the simplicity of Crossterm, you do not have to worry about the platform you are working with.
This crate supports all UNIX and Windows terminals down to Windows 7 (not all terminals are tested, see Tested Terminals for more info).
You may have noticed that Crossterm has been changing very quickly with the latest versions. We have done a lot of API-breaking changes by renaming functions, commands, changing the exports, improving the encapsulation, etc. However, all of this happens to improve the library and make it better and ready for a possible 1.0 release. We want to stick to the Command API and remove all other ways to use crossterm. Try to use this API and change your code accordingly. This way you will survive or overcome major migration problems ;).
We hope you can understand this, feel free to ask around in discord if you have questions. For up-to-date examples, have a look at the examples repository. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It's highly recommended to read the Upgrade from 0.13 to 0.14 documentation, which explains everything you need to know.
- Cross-platform
- Multi-threaded (send, sync)
- Detailed documentation
- Few dependencies
- Full control over writing and flushing output buffer
- Cursor
- Move the cursor N times (up, down, left, right)
- Move to previous / next line
- Move to column
- Set/get the cursor position
- Store the cursor position and restore to it later
- Hide/show the cursor
- Enable/disable cursor blinking (not all terminals do support this feature)
- Styled output
- Foreground color (16 base colors)
- Background color (16 base colors)
- 256 (ANSI) color support (Windows 10 and UNIX only)
- RGB color support (Windows 10 and UNIX only)
- Text attributes like bold, italic, underscore, crossed, etc
- Terminal
- Clear (all lines, current line, from cursor down and up, until new line)
- Scroll up, down
- Set/get the terminal size
- Exit current process
- Alternate screen
- Raw screen
- Input
- Input Events
- Mouse Events (press, release, position, button, drag)
- Terminal Resize Events
- Advanced modifier (SHIFT | ALT | CTRL) support for both mouse and key events and
- futures Stream (feature 'event-stream')
- Poll/read API
- Windows Powershell
- Windows 10 (Pro)
- Windows CMD
- Windows 10 (Pro)
- Windows 8.1 (N)
- Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
- Ubuntu 17.10
- (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
- Linux Mint
This crate supports all UNIX terminals and Windows terminals down to Windows 7; however, not all of the terminals have been tested. If you have used this library for a terminal other than the above list without issues, then feel free to add it to the above list - I really would appreciate it!
Click to show Cargo.toml.
[dependencies]
crossterm = "0.14"
use std::io::{stdout, Write};
use crossterm::{
execute,
style::{Color, Print, ResetColor, SetBackgroundColor, SetForegroundColor},
ExecutableCommand, Result,
};
fn main() -> Result<()> {
// using the macro
execute!(
stdout(),
SetForegroundColor(Color::Blue),
SetBackgroundColor(Color::Red),
Print("Styled text here."),
ResetColor
)?;
// or using functions
stdout()
.execute(SetForegroundColor(Color::Blue))?
.execute(SetBackgroundColor(Color::Red))?
.execute(Print("Styled text here."))?
.execute(ResetColor)?;
Ok(())
}
Checkout this list with all possible commands.
To optional feature flags.
[dependencies.crossterm]
version = "0.14"
features = ["event-stream"]
Feature | Description |
---|---|
event-stream |
futures::Stream producing Result<Event> . |
We highly appreciate when anyone contributes to this crate. Before you do, please, read the Contributing guidelines.
- Timon Post - Project Owner & creator
This project, crossterm
and all it's sub-crates: crossterm_screen
, crossterm_cursor
, crossterm_style
,
crossterm_input
, crossterm_terminal
, crossterm_winapi
, crossterm_utils
are licensed under the MIT
License - see the LICENSE file for details.