term: windows console handling is incomplete

[steveklabnik]

Issue by cmr
Tuesday Apr 08, 2014 at 14:55 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#13400

This issue was labelled with: A-libs, A-windows, E-easy in the Rust repository

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The Windows Console API is large and complex. libterm only handles using stdout as a console.

Honestly nobody cares about the windows console API. This work probably belongs in https://github.com/klutzy/rust-windows

[emberian]

These days, I still think that the support we have now is sufficient and that another crate should create a high-level wrapper of the windows console api.

[retep998]

I should point out I am starting work on a middle level wrapper of the windows console api and other console/terminal libraries can build on top of that.

https://github.com/retep998/wio-rs/blob/master/src/console.rs

[emberian]

Lovely! That looks pretty damn nice already, comparably.

[Stebalien]

I'm closing this in favour of #47 and #48.