sabre/katana

Since several months, I am working on sabre/katana: A contact, calendar, task list and file server, secured, synced, everywhere, all the time.

Control the terminal, the right way

There are plenty of terminal emulators in the wild. Each one has a specific way to be controlled (colours, cursor, window…). In this article, we are going to explain and show in action the right ways to control your terminal with a portable and an easy to maintain API. We are going to talk about stat, tput, terminfo, Hoa\Console… but do not be afraid, it's easy and fun!

Generate strings based on regular expressions

This article explains how to generate strings based on regular expressions. To make it possible, we will use the Hoa\Compiler and Hoa\Regex libraries. The goal is twofold: first it helps to analyze regular expressions, and second we see how to visit the produced AST in order to generate strings. A bonus waits the intrepids.