What is tty?

tty provides small cross-platform Lua bindings for terminal inspection.

Compatibility

tty supports:

• Lua 5.1
• Lua 5.2
• Lua 5.3
• Lua 5.4
• Lua 5.5
• LuaJIT

Use Cases

• Detect whether standard streams are attached to a terminal.
• Check Lua file handles and numeric file descriptors.
• Read terminal rows and columns for command-line output.
• Build terminal-aware Lua tools.