syntect-tui

A lightweight translation layer between syntect.rs and tui.rs style types. If you're building a CLI app with a UI powered by tui.rs and need syntax highlighting, then you may find this crate useful!

Given the limited scope of this crate I do have any plans to extend its functionality any further, but am open to contributions. Feel free to fork and submit a pull request.

Getting Started

syntect-tui is available on crates.io. You can install it by adding the following line to your Cargo.toml:

syntect-tui = "1.0"

Example Code

Building upon syntect's simple example, here's a snippet that parses some rust code, highlights it using syntect and converts it into tui::text::Spans ready for rendering in a tui appliction:

use syntect::easy::HighlightLines;
use syntect::parsing::SyntaxSet;
use syntect::highlighting::{ThemeSet, Style};
use syntect::util::LinesWithEndings;
use syntui::into_span;

let ps = SyntaxSet::load_defaults_newlines();
let ts = ThemeSet::load_defaults();
let syntax = ps.find_syntax_by_extension("rs").unwrap();
let mut h = HighlightLines::new(syntax, &ts.themes["base16-ocean.dark"]);
let s = "pub struct Wow { hi: u64 }\nfn blah() -> u64 {}";
for line in LinesWithEndings::from(s) { // LinesWithEndings enables use of newlines mode
    let line_spans: Vec<tui::text::Span> =
        h.highlight_line(line, &ps)
         .unwrap()
         .into_iter()
         .filter_map(|segment| into_span(segment).ok())
         .collect();
    let spans = tui::text::Spans::from(line_spans);
    print!("{:?}", spans);
}

Licence & Acknowledgements

Thanks to trishume and https://github.com/fdehau/ for building sytect & tui! All code is released under the MIT License.