#include "Common-Safe-Haskell.hs" {-| == Introduction Through this module, this library provides platform-independent support for control character sequences following the \'ANSI\' standards (see further below) for terminal software that supports those sequences, running on a Unix-like operating system or on Windows (see further below). The sequences of control characters (also referred to as \'escape\' sequences or codes) provide a rich range of functionality for terminal control, which includes: * Colored text output, with control over both foreground and background colors * Clearing parts of a line or the screen * Hiding or showing the cursor * Moving the cursor around * Reporting the position of the cursor * Scrolling the screen up or down * Switching between the Alternate and Normal Screen Buffers * Clickable hyperlinks to URIs * Changing the title of the terminal A terminal that supports control character sequences acts on them when they are flushed from the output buffer (with a newline character @\"\\n\"@ or, for the standard output channel, @hFlush stdout@). == \'ANSI\' standards The \'ANSI\' standards refer to (1) standard ECMA-48 \`Control Functions for Coded Character Sets\' (5th edition, 1991); (2) extensions in ITU-T Recommendation (previously CCITT Recommendation) T.416 (03/93) \'Information Technology – Open Document Architecture (ODA) and Interchange Format: Character Content Architectures\` (also published as ISO/IEC International Standard 8613-6); and (3) further extensions used by \'XTerm\', a terminal emulator for the X Window System. The escape codes are described in a Wikipedia article at and those codes supported on current versions of Windows at . The whole of the \'ANSI\' standards are not supported by this library but most (if not all) of the parts that are popular and well-supported by terminal software are supported (see further below). == Cursor positions The functions moving the cursor to an absolute position are 0-based (the top-left corner is considered to be at row 0 column 0) (see 'setCursorPosition') and so is 'getCursorPosition'. The \'ANSI\' standards themselves are 1-based (that is, the top-left corner is considered to be at row 1 column 1) and some functions reporting the position of the cursor are too (see 'reportCursorPosition'). == Windows and control character sequences The native terminal software on Windows has developed over time. Before Windows 10 version 1511 (known as the \'November [2015] Update\' or \'Threshold 2\') that software did not support control character sequences. For that software, this library also provides support for such sequences by using emulation based on the Windows Console API. From 2018, Microsoft introduced the Windows Pseudo Console (\'ConPTY\') API and then Windows Terminal, with the objective of replacing most of the Windows Console API with the use of control character sequences and retiring the historical user-interface role of Windows Console Host (\'ConHost\'). Terminal software other than the native software exists for Windows. One example is the \'mintty\' terminal emulator for \'Cygwin\', \'MSYS\' or \'MSYS2\', and dervied projects, and for \'WSL\' (Windows Subsystem for Linux). GHC's management of input and output (IO) on Windows has also developed over time. If they are supported by the terminal software, some control character sequences cause data to be emitted into the console input stream. For GHC's historical and default IO manager, the function 'hGetBufNonBlocking' in module "System.IO" does not work on Windows. This has been attributed to the lack of non-blocking primatives in the operating system (see the GHC bug report #806 at ). GHC's native IO manager on Windows (\'WinIO\'), introduced as a preview in [GHC 9.0.1](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.html#highlights), has not yet provided a solution. On Windows, this library uses emulation based on the Windows Console API to try to read data emitted into the console input stream. Functions that use that emulation are not supported on consoles, such as mintty, that are not based on that API. == Function variants provided Every function exported by this module comes in three variants, namely: * A variant that has an @IO ()@ type and doesn't take a @Handle@ (for example, @clearScreen :: IO ()@). This variant just outputs the \`ANSI\` command directly to the standard output channel ('stdout') and any terminal corresponding to it. Commands issued like this should work as you expect on both Unix-like operating systems and Windows (unless exceptions on Windows are stated). * An \'@h@...\' variant that has an @IO ()@ type but takes a @Handle@ (for example, @hClearScreen :: Handle -> IO ()@). This variant outputs the \`ANSI\` command to the supplied handle and any terminal corresponding to it. Commands issued like this should also work as you expect on both Unix-like operating systems and Windows (unless exceptions on Windows are stated). * A \'...@Code@\' variant that has a @String@ type (for example, @clearScreenCode :: String@). This variant outputs the sequence of control characters as a 'String', which can be added to any other bit of text before being output. If a high degree of backwards compatability is rewuired, the use of these codes is discouraged because they will not work on legacy versions of Windows where the terminal in use is not ANSI-enabled (see further above). On Windows, where emulation has been necessary, these variants will always output the empty string. That is done so that it is possible to use them portably; for example, coloring console output on the understanding that you will see colors only if you are running on a Unix-like operating system or a version of Windows where emulation has not been necessary. If the control characters are always required, see module "System.Console.ANSI.Codes". == Examples of use A simple example is below: > module Main where > > import System.Console.ANSI > > -- Set colors and write some text in those colors. > main :: IO () > main = do > setSGR [SetColor Foreground Vivid Red] > setSGR [SetColor Background Vivid Blue] > putStrLn "Red-On-Blue" > setSGR [Reset] -- Reset to default colour scheme > putStrLn "Default colors." Another example is below: > module Main where > > import System.IO (hFlush, stdout) > import System.Console.ANSI > > main :: IO () > main = do > setSGR [SetColor Foreground Dull Blue] > putStr "Enter your name: " > setSGR [SetColor Foreground Dull Yellow] > hFlush stdout -- flush the output buffer before getLine > name <- getLine > setSGR [SetColor Foreground Dull Blue] > putStrLn $ "Hello, " ++ name ++ "!" > setSGR [Reset] -- reset to default colour scheme For many more examples, see the project's extensive file. -} #if defined(WINDOWS) module System.Console.ANSI ( module System.Console.ANSI.Windows ) where import System.Console.ANSI.Windows #elif defined(UNIX) module System.Console.ANSI ( module System.Console.ANSI.Unix ) where import System.Console.ANSI.Unix #else #error Unsupported platform for the ansi-terminal package #endif