cl-tickit is a simple cffi wrapper over libtickit (by 'Leonerd', available at https://launchpad.net/libtickit), a library that provides a full toolkit for developing interactive terminal applications. It is recommended to use the terminfo, cl-ecma-48 and acute-terminal-control libraries to roll your own solution, hence avoiding the obscure foreign library dependency.

Using this library, applications can:

• Render output content and react to input events independently in any window region
• Use fully Unicode-aware string content, including non-BMP, fullwidth and combining characters
• Draw line-art using Unicode box-drawing characters in a variety of styles
• Operate synchronously or asynchronously via file descriptors, or abstractly via byte buffers
• Recognise arbitrary keyboard input, including modifiers
• Make use of multiple terminals, if available, from a single application
• Recognise mouse gestures including mouse wheel and recognition of position reporting greater than 224 columns on terminals that support it
• Use direct-color sequences on terminals that support them, eliminating the need for palettes

Sometime in the future:

• Embed this functionality in a user-provided event loop (once API becomes stable)
• Provide your own virtual terminal (driver) implementation
• use a high level lisp wrapper for common tasks