#vt100 #terminal-parser #terminal

vt100-ctt

Library for parsing terminal data - up-to-date version

4 releases (2 breaking)

new 0.17.1 Feb 7, 2026
0.17.0 Feb 7, 2026
0.16.0 Nov 17, 2024
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Used in 8 crates (7 directly)

MIT license

140KB
3K SLoC

vt100

This crate parses a terminal byte stream and provides an in-memory representation of the rendered contents.

Overview

This is essentially the terminal parser component of a graphical terminal emulator pulled out into a separate crate. Although you can use this crate to build a graphical terminal emulator, it also contains functionality necessary for implementing terminal applications that want to run other terminal applications - programs like screen or tmux for example.

Synopsis

let mut parser = vt100_ctt::Parser::new(24, 80, 0);

let screen = parser.screen().clone();
parser.process(b"this text is \x1b[31mRED\x1b[m");
assert_eq!(
    parser.screen().cell(0, 13).unwrap().fgcolor(),
    vt100_ctt::Color::Idx(1),
);

let screen = parser.screen().clone();
parser.process(b"\x1b[3D\x1b[32mGREEN");
assert_eq!(
    parser.screen().contents_formatted(),
    &b"\x1b[?25h\x1b[m\x1b[H\x1b[Jthis text is \x1b[32mGREEN"[..],
);
assert_eq!(
    parser.screen().contents_diff(&screen),
    &b"\x1b[1;14H\x1b[32mGREEN"[..],
);

Dependencies

~7MB
~123K SLoC