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I’ve just released the rout tool I mentioned in my last blog post about command-line parsing semantics . rout is a simple tool, written in rust, that produces unicode utf-8 output in interesting ways. It uses the minimal command-line parsing crate ap . It also uses a fancy pest parser for interpreting escape sequences and range syntax. Either grab the source , or install the crate : $ cargo install rout Full details (with lots of examples! ;) are on both sites: https://crates.io/crates/rout https://github.com/jamesodhunt/rout

Introduction In these heady times of almost daily advances in UI pizzazz, you could be forgiven for thinking the terminal is somewhat of a dead-zone when it comes to excitement. Oh how wrong you would be though...! If you've never used  Byobu ,  Dustin's  awesome text-based window manage, sudo apt-get install it without delay to be bathed in pure terminal goodness. As shown below, byobu comes with a whole host of standard indicators, allowing the display of useful snippets of information. The indicators are minimal out of terminal-width real estate necessity, but that's also their strength - they provide just the details you really care about in a tight ASCII format. And they're cute of course :-) However, byobu has a well-kept secret: when running with the tmux backend, it supports Unicode indicators. So with the proviso that you are running " byobu-tmux " rather than " byobu-screen ", you can squeeze down those indicators even further...