Simple macros to write colored and formatted text to a terminal. Based on `termcolor`, thus also cross-platform.

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Overview

Bunt: simple macro-based terminal colors and styles

CI status of master Crates.io Version docs.rs

bunt offers macros to easily print colored and formatted text to a terminal. It is just a convenience API on top of termcolor. bunt is implemented using procedural macros, but it does not depend on syn and compiles fairly quickly.

Minimum Supported Rust Version: 1.46.0

// Style tags will color/format text between the tags.
bunt::println!("I really like {$yellow}lemons{/$}! Like, {$blue+italic}a lot{/$}.");

// To style a single argument, you can also use the `{[style]...}` syntax. This
// can be combined with style tags.
let v = vec![1, 2, 3];
bunt::println!("Here is some data: {[green]:?}. {$bold}Length: {[cyan]}{/$}", v, v.len());

See the documentation for more information.

Status of this project

This is still a young project, but I already use it in two applications of mine. The syntax is certainly not final yet. Seeking feedback from the community!



License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Comments
  • "expected none or () delimited group, but found different token tree (note: do not use the macros from `bunt-macros` directly, but only through `bunt`)"

    Hi,

    When macro expansion is activated in rust-analyser in VSCode, I get the following error, every time I use bunt::println!:

    expected none or () delimited group, but found different token tree (note: do not use the macros from bunt-macros directly, but only through bunt)

    Is this somehow fixable?

    Macro expansion is useful for completion of types that are created via proc macros (e.g. typed_builder), but now my code is littered with error messages that the compiler itself doesn't report as errors.

    opened by d4h0 10
  • Add `format!` macro to create a termcolor::Buffer

    Add `format!` macro to create a termcolor::Buffer

    The slight "problem" is that in order to create a Buffer, we probably want to go through BufferWriter. And there again we have to specify a color preference, where we would also default to Auto, I guess.

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 5
  • Multiple fmt strings

    Multiple fmt strings

    Closes #15

    This is a workaround for the use cases where you want to pass the result of concat! as format string.

    @d4h0 Again, if you have the time, I would appreciate feedback if this works for your use case. I will test a similar use case in an app of mine soon-ish, too.

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 3
  • Feature request: Allow `tt` at format string position

    Feature request: Allow `tt` at format string position

    Hi,

    At the moment bunt only allows literals at the format string position. std:println, however, allows tt.

    Unfortunately, this prevents bunt users from generating format strings via macros.

    For example, I tried the following:

    macro_rules! println_with_colored_prefix {
        ($color:literal, $id:expr, $fmt_str:literal $(, $arg:expr)*) => {
            bunt::println!(
                concat!("{$", $color, "}[{}][{}]{/$} ", $fmt_str),
                BIN.get().expect("Usage before static variable `BIN` set"),
                $id
                $(, $arg)*
            )
        };
    }
    
    macro_rules! say {
        ($($arg:expr),+) => {
            println_with_colored_prefix!("blue", $($arg),+)
        };
    }
    
    macro_rules! err {
        ($($arg:expr),+) => {
            println_with_colored_prefix!("red", $($arg),+)
        };
    }
    
    fn main() {
        let name = "foo";
        say!(name, "my message.");
        err!(name, "my error.");
    }
    

    Because concat!("{$", $color, "}[{}][{}]{/$} ", $fmt_str) isn't a literal, this code doesn't compile.

    std allows this, however (Playground:

    macro_rules! my_println {
        ($fmt_str:literal $(, $arg:expr)*) => {
            println!(concat!("my prefix: ", $fmt_str), $(, $arg)*)
        };
    }
    
    fn main(){
        my_println!("foo")
    }
    

    From looking at the source code (see links above), it seems bunt would just have to replace literal in $format_str:literal with tt to support this.

    Maybe the tt would have to be converted to a literal somehow, I'm not sure. The macros above are the only macros I have created so far :)

    opened by d4h0 3
  • Underlining tabs

    Underlining tabs

    Hey there!

    I have a string header with this content: " \tSnippet name: \t Source file:" (note, that GitHub doesn't really display all the contained whitespace). I'm trying to print this string underlined: bunt::println!("{[underline]}", header);, but the underlining stops at the tabs. Is this intended behavior? If so, what would be the best workaround here? My output currently looks like this:

    image

    As a side note, the line bunt::println!("{[underline]}", header); gives me an error in VS Code with Rust-Analyzer:

    expected none or () delimited group, but found different token tree (note: do not use the macros from `bunt-macros` directly, but only through `bunt`) 
    rust-analyzer(macro-error)
    

    Is this something that I should post an issue about, or would it rather belong in the Rust-Analyzer repository?

    opened by LeCyberDucky 2
  • Fix `?` in arguments

    Fix `?` in arguments

    Fixes #14

    @d4h0 If you have the time, could you please test this branch in your project to confirm this fixes your problem? This should work:

    bunt = { git = "https://github.com/LukasKalbertodt/bunt/", branch="fix-questionmark-in-argument" }
    
    opened by LukasKalbertodt 2
  • Fails to compile if `?` is used in macro with error that isn't `std::io::Error`

    Fails to compile if `?` is used in macro with error that isn't `std::io::Error`

    Hi, thanks for creating bunt (and great name, by the way! ;)).

    The following fails:

    fn main() -> color_eyre::Result<()> {
    
        // works:
        let ok: Result<()> = Ok(());
        std::println!("{:?}", ok?);
    
        //failes:
        let ok: Result<()> = Ok(());
        bunt::println!("{:?}", ok?);
        
        Ok(())
    }
    

    The error message is:

    error[E0277]: `?` couldn't convert the error to `std::io::Error`
      --> abalet_com/src/bin/web_dev_server.rs:94:30
       |
    94 |     bunt::println!("{:?}", ok?);
       |                              ^ the trait `std::convert::From<color_eyre::Report>` is not implemented for `std::io::Error`
       |
       = note: the question mark operation (`?`) implicitly performs a conversion on the error value using the `From` trait
       = help: the following implementations were found:
                 <std::io::Error as std::convert::From<getrandom::error::Error>>
                 <std::io::Error as std::convert::From<openssl::error::ErrorStack>>
                 <std::io::Error as std::convert::From<rand_core::error::Error>>
                 <std::io::Error as std::convert::From<serde_json::error::Error>>
               and 4 others
       = note: required by `std::convert::From::from`
    
    opened by d4h0 2
  • Just a question

    Just a question

    Not an issue, just a question: What's the reason for using this match construct instead of a simple if elseif else. There are no new bindings and the compiler can't help with the patterns...

    https://github.com/LukasKalbertodt/bunt/blob/91a65fbb33f7c79d5b63f901c4b2f0106e68393d/macros/src/parse/fmt.rs#L61-L81

    question 
    opened by lukaslueg 2
  • Add option to set `ColorChoice` globally for `[e]print[ln]`?

    Add option to set `ColorChoice` globally for `[e]print[ln]`?

    I'm running into a situation now where I am adding a --color flag to my CLI to control color output. Currently the bunt docs recommend using write! with a custom stream then. And sure, it works, but I now want all my bunt calls to respect that color choice. So maybe it makes sense to add an ability to change the global color choice?

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 1
  • Support omitting format string

    Support omitting format string

    For example println!() or writeln!(stream) would just write a line break.

    This mirrors the functionality of the std macros, making these more of a drop in replacement. Note the write_with_newline clippy lint prefers this short form, which can be annoying since it also triggers when using writeln from this crate.

    opened by andrewhickman 1
  • Add support for width and precision parameters

    Add support for width and precision parameters

    The std::fmt syntax allows to pass the width or precision via parameter. It looks like this:

    println!("Hello {1:0$}!", 5, "x");
    

    This is currently unsupported and leads to strange behavior or errors.

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 0
  • ANSI 256 as #3-tuples

    ANSI 256 as #3-tuples

    Docs says "there is currently no syntax for Color::Ansi256 because I couldn’t come up with a nice syntax and I never used these ansi colors…)". I do need those ones.

    What about just using a #123 syntax? If RGB should always be 6-tuple strings, then there is no ambiguity with ANSI's 256 3-tuple.

    The meaning should be straigthforward, but may collides in users mind with CSS' short 3-tuple RGB (for which #fff is a valid shortcut for #ffffff).

    Alternatively, any other prefix may be used, like @, which reminds the A of ANSI.

    opened by nojhan 9
  • Pass style as argument to be able to calculate it at runtime

    Pass style as argument to be able to calculate it at runtime

    From https://github.com/LukasKalbertodt/bunt/issues/1#issuecomment-812863115:

    Could the color and other styles be specified by argument? For example,

    bunt::println!("{$*}error:{/$}", Color::Red, ty);
    

    In that case I could calculate the color at runtime.

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 0
  • bunt::format_args & bunt::format

    bunt::format_args & bunt::format

    Hi,

    Something that sometimes would be useful, is bunt::format_args (and maybe bunt::format).

    This would come in handy, for example, to format logging messages with bunt. In this case, a user can't currently use bunts macros without allocating. Another use-case would be to store formatted strings (probably only via bunt::format with an allocation).

    The best option I could come up with is to write! to a termcolor::Buffer, but this does allocate.

    (By the way, does bunt allocate internally?)

    My current use case is, that I have a log macro that accepts a bunt format string and arguments (which prints regular status messages for the user). I also have an option to activate debugging output, which activates tracing.

    So basically, there are two different log output formats (my own and tracing).

    It would be better if – if debug is activated – my log macro redirects messages to tracing. But, as mentioned above, this is only possible via termcolor::Buffer to which I write bunts output.

    How hard would it be to add a variant of std::format_args to bunt?

    opened by d4h0 4
  • Should `print!` and `write!` flush automatically?

    Should `print!` and `write!` flush automatically?

    There was some discussion about this regarding the std macros. Depending on the reason for deciding against it, maybe bunt's versions of these two macros should flush automatically.

    opened by LukasKalbertodt 0
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