Built-in standard input / output & utility functions
local stdio = require("@lune/stdio")
-- Prompting the user for basic input
local text: string = stdio.prompt("text", "Please write some text")
local confirmed: boolean = stdio.prompt("confirm", "Please confirm this action")
-- Writing directly to stdout or stderr, without the auto-formatting of print/warn/error
stdio.write("Hello, ")
stdio.write("World! ")
stdio.write("All on the same line")
stdio.ewrite("\nAnd some error text, too")
Prompts for user input using the wanted kind of prompt:
"text"
- Prompts for a plain text string from the user"confirm"
- Prompts the user to confirm with y / n (yes / no)"select"
- Prompts the user to select one value from a list"multiselect"
- Prompts the user to select one or more values from a listnil
- Equivalent to"text"
with no extra arguments
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kind
The kind of prompt to use -
message
The message to show the user -
defaultOrOptions
The default value for the prompt, or options to choose from for selection prompts
Return an ANSI string that can be used to modify the persistent output color.
Pass "reset"
to get a string that can reset the persistent output color.
stdio.write(stdio.color("red"))
print("This text will be red")
stdio.write(stdio.color("reset"))
print("This text will be normal")
color
The color to use
- A printable ANSI string
Return an ANSI string that can be used to modify the persistent output style.
Pass "reset"
to get a string that can reset the persistent output style.
stdio.write(stdio.style("bold"))
print("This text will be bold")
stdio.write(stdio.style("reset"))
print("This text will be normal")
style
The style to use
- A printable ANSI string
Formats arguments into a human-readable string with syntax highlighting for tables.
...
The values to format
- The formatted string
Writes a string directly to stdout, without any newline.
s
The string to write to stdout
Writes a string directly to stderr, without any newline.
s
The string to write to stderr