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This library provides a small set of standard utility functions for interacting with terminals.
module Color : sig ... end
module Style : sig ... end
module Ansi : sig ... end
guess_printed_width s
returns an estimate of the number of terminal columns that the UTF-8 encoded string s
would occupy if displayed in a terminal, after stripping any ANSI escape codes in the string.
Note: this function uses a heuristic (Uucp.tty_width_hint
) to guess the rendered length of supplied strings. This function is not guaranteed to be correct on all UTF-8 codepoints. See the Uucp
documentation for details.
truncate_to_width n s
is the longest prefix of UTF-8 encoded string s
that will fit within n
columns when displayed in a terminal (without including unbalanced ANSI control sequences after the n
-th column).
As with guess_printed_width
, the implementation relies on heuristics and so may not be accurate for all inputs (or for all terminal implementations).