A single terminal cell — cell • termr

Cells are the unit of the virtual screen. Each cell holds one character (a wide character such as a CJK ideograph occupies two cells; the second one is a continuation cell whose char is ""), colours and text attributes.

Usage

cell(
  char = " ",
  fg = NULL,
  bg = NULL,
  bold = FALSE,
  italic = FALSE,
  underline = FALSE,
  reverse = FALSE,
  dim = FALSE,
  strike = FALSE
)

Arguments

char: A single character.
fg, bg: Foreground and background colours. NULL means the terminal default. See style() for accepted colour formats.
bold, italic, underline, reverse, dim, strike: Text attributes.

Value

An object of class termr_cell.

Details

The framebuffer stores cells column-wise in matrices for speed; cell() is the value-level representation used for inspection and tests.

Examples

cell("A", fg = "red", bold = TRUE)
#> <cell "A" fg=red bg=default bold>