Qalam
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Qalam is a Go library for easy terminal styling. 
Installation
go get github.com/iskaa02/qalam
Usage
func main(){
// this will output "a red text" with red in terminal
// you can use qalam.Sprintf() if you don't want to print yet
qalam.Printf("[red]a red %s[/red]","text")
}
| Code | Style |
|---|---|
| b/bold | bold text |
| i/italic | italic text |
| u/underline | underline text |
| s/strikethrough | |
| #hexcode | change the color |
| bg#hexcode | change the background color |
| red | change the color to red |
| yellow | change the color to yellow |
| magenta | change the color to magenta |
| white | change the color to white |
| black | change the color to black |
| green | change the color to green |
| cyan | change the color to cyan |
| bg.(color) | change the background color to any color mentioned above |
Examples
Multiple styles
qalam.Printf("[b s]bold and strikethrough[/b s]")
outputs: bold and strikethrough
Composing styles
qalam.Printf("[b]bold only [i]bold and italic[/i][/b]")
outputs: bold only bold and italic
Emoji
// outputs "this is a vampire -> 🧛"
qalam.Printf("this is a vampire ->[:vampire:]")
Style
You can use style function to apply style to string
// this is equivalent for qalam.Sprintf("[bold]this text is bold[/bold]")
qalam.Style("this text is bold","bold")
Emoji
You can use get emoji function to return an emoji
// returns '🍎'
qalam.Emoji("red_apple")
What does the Qalam mean
Qalam in Arabic means pencil
Compatibility
ANSI work a bit different depending on the operating system, this implementation should work for MacOS, Linux and Windows, Although it's only been tested on Linux.
