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27.Dd Mar 13, 2017
28.Dt TEKEN 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm teken
32.Nd xterm-like terminal emulation interface
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libteken
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In teken.h
37.Ft void
38.Fn teken_init "teken_t *t" "const teken_funcs_t *funcs" "void *thunk"
39.Ft void
40.Fn teken_input "teken_t *t" "const void *buf" "size_t nbytes"
41.Ft const teken_pos_t *
42.Fn teken_get_winsize "teken_t *t"
43.Ft void
44.Fn teken_set_winsize "teken_t *t" "const teken_pos_t *size"
45.Ft const teken_pos_t *
46.Fn teken_get_cursor "const teken_t *t"
47.Ft void
48.Fn teken_set_cursor "teken_t *t" "const teken_pos_t *pos"
49.Ft const teken_attr_t *
50.Fn teken_get_curattr "const teken_t *t"
51.Ft void
52.Fn teken_set_curattr "teken_t *t" "const teken_attr_t *attr"
53.Ft const teken_attr_t *
54.Fn teken_get_defattr "const teken_t *t"
55.Ft void
56.Fn teken_set_defattr "teken_t *t" "const teken_attr_t *attr"
57.Ft const char *
58.Fn teken_get_sequence "const teken_t *t" "unsigned int id"
59.Ft teken_color_t
60.Fn teken_256to16 "teken_color_t color"
61.Ft teken_color_t
62.Fn teken_256to8 "teken_color_t color"
63.Ft void
64.Fn teken_get_defattr_cons25 "const teken_t *t" "int *fg" "int *bg"
65.Ft void
66.Fn teken_set_8bit "teken_t *t"
67.Ft void
68.Fn teken_set_cons25 "teken_t *t"
69.Sh DESCRIPTION
70The
71.Nm
72library implements the input parser of a 256-color xterm-like terminal.
73It converts a stream of UTF-8 encoded characters into a series of
74primitive drawing instructions that can be used by a console driver or
75terminal emulator to render a terminal application.
76.Pp
77The
78.Fn teken_init
79function is used to initialize terminal state object
80.Fa t ,
81having type
82.Vt teken_t .
83The supplied
84.Vt teken_funcs_t
85structure
86.Fa funcs
87contains a set of callback functions, which are called when supplying
88data to
89.Fn teken_input .
90The
91.Fa thunk
92argument stores an arbitrary pointer, which is passed to each invocation
93of the callback functions.
94.Pp
95The
96.Vt teken_funcs_t
97structure stores the following callbacks:
98.Bd -literal -offset indent
99typedef struct {
100	tf_bell_t     *tf_bell;     /* Audible/visible bell. */
101	tf_cursor_t   *tf_cursor;   /* Move cursor to x/y. */
102	tf_putchar_t  *tf_putchar;  /* Put Unicode character at x/y. */
103	tf_fill_t     *tf_fill;     /* Fill rectangle with character. */
104	tf_copy_t     *tf_copy;     /* Copy rectangle to new location. */
105	tf_param_t    *tf_param;    /* Miscellaneous options. */
106	tf_respond_t  *tf_respond;  /* Send response string to user. */
107} teken_funcs_t;
108.Ed
109.Pp
110All callbacks must be provided, though unimplemented callbacks may some
111times be sufficient.
112The actual types of these callbacks can be found in
113.In teken.h .
114.Pp
115By default,
116.Fn teken_init
117initializes the
118.Vt teken_t
119structure to emulate a terminal having 24 rows and 80 columns.
120The
121.Fn teken_get_winsize
122and
123.Fn teken_set_winsize
124functions can be used to obtain and modify the dimensions of the
125terminal.
126.Pp
127Even though the cursor position is normally controlled by input of data
128through
129.Fn teken_input
130and returned by the
131.Fn tf_cursor
132callback, it can be obtained and modified manually using the
133.Fn teken_get_cursor
134and
135.Fn teken_set_cursor
136functions.
137The same holds for
138.Fn teken_get_curattr
139and
140.Fn teken_set_curattr ,
141which can be used to change the currently selected font attributes and
142foreground and background color.
143.Pp
144By default,
145.Nm
146emulates a white-on-black terminal, which means the default foreground
147color is white, while the background color is black.
148These defaults can be modified using
149.Fn teken_get_defattr
150and
151.Fn teken_set_defattr .
152.Pp
153The
154.Fn teken_get_sequence
155function is a utility function that can be used to obtain escape
156sequences of special keyboard keys, generated by user input.
157The
158.Fa id
159parameter must be one of the
160.Dv TKEY_*
161parameters listed in
162.In teken.h .
163.Sh LEGACY FEATURES
164This library also provides a set of functions that shouldn't be used in
165any modern applications.
166.Pp
167The
168.Fn teken_256to16
169function converts an xterm-256 256-color code to an xterm 16-color code
170whose color with default palettes is as similar as possible (not very
171similar).
172The lower 3 bits of the result are the ANSI color and the next lowest
173bit is brightness.
174Other layers (hardare and software) that only support 16 colors can use
175this to avoid knowing the details of 256-color codes.
176.Pp
177The
178.Fn teken_256to8
179function is similar to
180.Fn teken_256to16
181except it converts to an ANSI 8-color code.
182This is more accurate than discarding the brigtness bit in the result of
183.Fn teken_256to16 .
184.Pp
185The
186.Fn teken_get_defattr_cons25
187function obtains the default terminal attributes as a pair of foreground
188and background colors, using ANSI color numbering.
189.Pp
190The
191.Fn teken_set_8bit
192function disables UTF-8 processing and switches to 8-bit character mode,
193which can be used to support character sets like CP437 and ISO-8859-1.
194.Pp
195The
196.Fn teken_set_cons25
197function switches terminal emulation to
198.Dv cons25 ,
199which is used by versions of
200.Fx
201prior to 9.0.
202.Sh SEE ALSO
203.Xr ncurses 3 ,
204.Xr termcap 3 ,
205.Xr syscons 4
206.Sh HISTORY
207The
208.Nm
209library appeared in
210.Fx 8.0 ,
211though it was only available and used inside the kernel.
212In
213.Fx 9.0 ,
214the
215.Nm
216library appeared in userspace.
217.Sh AUTHORS
218.An Ed Schouten Aq ed@FreeBSD.org
219.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
220The
221.Fn tf_respond
222callback is used to respond to device status requests commands generated
223by an application.
224In the past, there have been various security issues, where a malicious
225application sends a device status request before termination, causing
226the generated response to be interpreted by applications such as
227.Xr sh 1 .
228.Pp
229.Nm
230only implements a small subset of responses which are unlikely to cause
231any harm.
232Still, it is advised to leave
233.Fn tf_respond
234unimplemented.
235