1.17.7: Introduced `formatter()`

• Introduced: formatter() which returns callable formatters for valid text formatters such as ‘red’ or ‘bold_on_red’, returning a NullCallableString if passed an invalid text formatter.

less turbulence for unspported input encodings

bugfix: Use UTF-8 for keyboard if input encoding cannot be determined.

because gentoo

although I used gentoo from 2001-2003, I still don't understand it

1.17.4: Performance improvement

• optimize length() PR #159

1.17.3: pixel_width and height support, minor bug and docfixes

• add pixel_height and pixel_width, for libsixel support or general curiosity, it actually works on most of the terminals I tested! This wasn't the case several years ago, closes #155
• bugfix "pickleability" of FormatOtherString, by implementing __getnewargs__, with tests.
• docfix some confusion about (y, x), (row, column), etc. There were some backwards things, and it's pretty annoying that get_location() doesn't match location(), we document why -- to retain API compatibility with blessings!
• rewrite the messages of our TypeError's, hopefully these are easier to understand.

1.17.2: hyperlink support and minor bug & docfix release

Do not test hyperlink sequences on windows / where does_styling is Fa…

…lse (#148)

This test failure indicates to me that windows reads `does_styling` as False in travis, so no URL is emitted, and that's ok for now, since Windows 10 doesn't yet support hyperlinks, https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/204

When it does, I think there is nothing for us to do, I think it works as-is before and after.

1.17.1: Documentation and minor bugfix release

• Documentation overhaul, to include plenty of examples and animated screenshots.
• Includes small fix to #126, #138, otherwise a lot of test harness and coverage changes.

1.17.0: 24-bit color support

• introduced: 24-bit color support, detected by term.number_of_colors == 1 << 24, and 24-bit
  color foreground method color_rgb and background method
  on_color_rgb, as well as 676 common X11 color attribute names are now
  possible, such as term.aquamarine_on_wheat, #60.
• introduced: term.move_xy, recommended over built-in move capability, as the return
  positional arguments, (x, y) match the return value of get_location,
  and all other common graphics library calls, #65.
  values over the bterm.move.
• introduced: move_up`, move_down, move_left, move_rightwhich are strings that move the cursor one cell in the respective direction, are now also callables for moving *n* cells to the given direction, such asterm.move_right(9)``, .
• bugfix: prevent error condition, ValueError: underlying buffer has been detached in rare
  conditions where sys.stdout has been detached in test frameworks, #126.
• bugfix: off-by-one error in :meth:get_location, now accounts for %i in
  cursor_report, #94.
• bugfix split_seqs and related functions failed to match when the color index
  was greater than 15, #101.
• bugfix: Context Managers, fullscreen, hidden_cursor, and
  keypad now flush the stream after writing their sequences.
• bugfix: chr(127), \x7f has changed from keycode term.DELETE to the more common
  match, term.BACKSPACE, #115 by @jwezel.
• deprecated: the direct curses move() capability is no longer recommended, suggest to use
  move_xy(), which matches the return value of .get_location.
• deprecated: superscript, subscript, shadow, and dim are no longer "compoundable"
  with colors, such as in phrase Terminal.blue_subscript('a'). These attributes are not
  typically supported, anyway. Use Unicode text or 256 or 24-bit color codes instead.
• deprecated: additional key names, such as KEY_TAB, are no longer "injected" into the curses
  module namespace.
• deprecated: curses.setupterm is now called with os.devnull as the file descriptor, let us know if this causes any issues! :ghissue:59.
• deprecated: inkey no longer raises RuntimeError when stream
  is not a terminal, programs using Terminal.inkey may block indefinitely if a keyboard is
  not attached, #69.
• deprecated: using argument _intr_continue to method kbhit, behavior is as
  though such value is always True since 1.9.

1.16.1: Windows py2 locale bugfix

• merge #112 to resolve locale issues on windows with python2

1.16.0: Windows Support

• Windows support?! #110