Helpers¶

All helpers reside on blessed.helpers or blessed.

• merge(a, b) - Merge objects a and b into object a.
• asort(obj) - Sort array alphabetically by name prop.
• hsort(obj) - Sort array numerically by index prop.
• findFile(start, target) - Find a file at start directory with name target.
• escape(text) - Escape content's tags to be passed into el.setContent(). Example: box.setContent('escaped tag: ' + blessed.escape('{bold}{/bold}'));
• parseTags(text) - Parse tags into SGR escape codes.
• generateTags(style, text) - Generate text tags based on style object.
• attrToBinary(style, element) - Convert style attributes to binary format.
• stripTags(text) - Strip text of tags and SGR sequences.
• cleanTags(text) - Strip text of tags, SGR escape code, and leading/trailing whitespace.
• dropUnicode(text) - Drop text of any >U+FFFF characters.