cl-ansi-term

cl-ansi-term allows to print various primitives on ANSI-compliant terminals. It also supports coloration and effects. cl-ansi-term is not something like ncurses, because it works with primitives that you can output in your terminal, as well as redirect to a file. In other words, it's more about good ol' textual interface than emulation of GUI in terminal. An example of user interface created with cl-ansi-term is here.

cl-ansi-term uses the concept of style sheet to manage coloration of output. Define styles, give them names, specify foreground colors, background colors, and effects for every style.

The library is capable of detecting whether the output goes to a terminal or a file. If the latter case takes place, no escape sequences will be outputted. It's also possible to disable all effects and coloration.

cl-ansi-term can print the following things:

• colorized text
• horizontal lines
• progress bars
• unordered lists
• ordered lists
• tables

Installation

Via Quicklisp (recommended):

(ql:quickload "cl-ansi-term")

Then you can use the term nickname.

Documentation

See the doc directory. The documentation is also available online:

https://vindarel.github.io/cl-ansi-term

Quick snippets:

(term:o-list '((:one one-a (:one-b :one-b-1 :one-b-2)) :two))
1. ONE
   1. ONE-A
   2. ONE-B
      1. ONE-B-1
      2. ONE-B-2
2. TWO

(term:u-list '((:one one-a (:one-b :one-b-1 :one-b-2)) :two)
              :bullet \"+-\")
+ ONE
  - ONE-A
  - ONE-B
    + ONE-B-1
    + ONE-B-2
+ TWO


(term:table (list '("name" "age")
                  '("me" "7")))
+---------+---------+
|name     |age      |
+---------+---------+
|me       |7        |
+---------+---------+

;; A long cell is truncated to :column-width, 10 by default.

(term:table '(("name" "age" "email")
              ("me" 7 "some@blah")
              ("me" 7 "some@with-some-longer.email")))
+---------+---------+---------+
|name     |age      |email    |
+---------+---------+---------+
|me       |7        |some@blah|
+---------+---------+---------+
|me       |7        |some@w(…)|
+---------+---------+---------+

;; Each column can have a different length.

(term:table '(("name" "age" "email")
              ("me" 7 "some@blah")
              ("me" 7 "some@with-some-longer.email"))
             :column-width '(10 4 20))
+---------+---+-------------------+
|name     |age|email              |
+---------+---+-------------------+
|me       |7  |some@blah          |
+---------+---+-------------------+
|me       |7  |some@with-some-l(…)|
+---------+---+-------------------+


(term:hr :filler "=")
================================================================================

(term:cat-print '(:abc :def :ghi) :align :center)
                                   ABCDEFGHI

Docstrings

table

Print a table filling cells with OBJECTS. OBJECTS must be a list of list
designators with equal lengths.

If BORDER-STYLE is NIL, no border will be
printed, otherwise BORDER-STYLE is expected to be a keyword that denotes
the style in which borders of the table should be printed.

HEADER-STYLE will be
applied to the first row of the table (also to the first column if
COL-HEADER is not NIL) and CELL-STYLE will be applied to all other rows. If
CELL-STYLE is a list, its elements will be used to differently render every
column.

Objects that end with MARK-SUFFIX will be printed using MARK-STYLE.

COLUMN-WIDTH is 10 by default. It can be an integer that applies to
all columns, or a list designator to set a different
width for every column. A cell content is truncated to fit the width. See `str:*ellipsis*'
for the ellusion string, `(…)' by default.

ALIGN controls the alignmet inside a cell. It can take the values :LEFT (default value), :CENTER, and :RIGHT.

MARGIN, an integer, is the left margin of the whole table.

Output goes to STREAM.

See also

• https://github.com/AccelerationNet/data-table
• https://github.com/telephil/cl-ascii-table/

Blog posts:

• http://40ants.com/lisp-project-of-the-day/2020/05/0082-data-table.html
• http://40ants.com/lisp-project-of-the-day/2020/05/0084-cl-ascii-table.html

License

Copyright © 2015–2018 Mark Karpov Copyright © 2018–2020 Vindarel

Distributed under GNU GPL, version 3.