imsnif / terminal-anatomy-code-examples

Code examples for https://www.poor.dev/blog/terminal-anatomy/

This repository contains examples from the Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator blog post.

Each folder contains a separate example and can be run separately according to its README.

1. spawn_and_read_from_shell - contains a program that spawns a new shell through a PTY, reads output from it and displays it escaped on screen.
2. raw_castle_ansi - contains the ANSI art for the castle animation in the post, to allow anyone to cat it into their own terminal and play around with it.
3. responsive_terminal_ui - contains a program that draws a different UI depending on the current terminal size, updating itself as the window is resized.
4. terminal_raw_mode - displays a use case for using the terminal raw mode feature to receive user input one character at a time.