This is a Lua parser for the terminfo source format used by
ncurses. It's intended to allow querying and transforming the
database via scripting, in a manner that's more flexible and
performant than using the command-line tools (i.e. infocmp,
tput, etc.).
Note: This library is not intended to replace the terminfo or curses
C APIs. Many control sequences in the database must be passed through
tparm(3) and/or tputs(3) before being sent to a terminal. Use
Lua bindings for the C APIs if you need a terminal control library.
See the scripts in the examples/ directory for a demonstration of
how to use the library and the kinds of queries that can be performed.
For quick reference, the output for most of these scripts can also be
found under examples/output/.
Since the intended use case of the library is running ad-hoc queries on
terminfo.src, there are no official packages or versioned releases.
Copyright © 2018-2024 Craig Barnes.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 3 for more details.