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ghostty/example/c-vt-grid-traverse/src/main.c
Mitchell Hashimoto 93c597ce6b example: add grid reference traversal example
Add a c-vt-grid-ref example that demonstrates the terminal and grid
reference APIs end-to-end. The example creates a small 10x3 terminal,
writes text with mixed styles via VT sequences, then iterates over
every cell in the active area using ghostty_terminal_grid_ref. For
each cell it extracts the codepoint, and for each row it inspects
the wrap flag and the style bold attribute.

The grid_ref.h defgroup gains a @snippet reference to the new example,
and vt.h gets the corresponding @example entry and @ref listing.
2026-03-19 19:55:02 -07:00

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#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ghostty/vt.h>
//! [grid-ref-traverse]
int main() {
// Create a small terminal
GhosttyTerminal terminal;
GhosttyTerminalOptions opts = {
.cols = 10,
.rows = 3,
.max_scrollback = 0,
};
GhosttyResult result = ghostty_terminal_new(NULL, &terminal, opts);
assert(result == GHOSTTY_SUCCESS);
// Write some content so the grid has interesting data
const char *text = "Hello!\r\n" // Row 0: H e l l o !
"World\r\n" // Row 1: W o r l d
"\033[1mBold"; // Row 2: B o l d (bold style)
ghostty_terminal_vt_write(
terminal, (const uint8_t *)text, strlen(text));
// Get terminal dimensions
uint16_t cols, rows;
ghostty_terminal_get(terminal, GHOSTTY_TERMINAL_DATA_COLS, &cols);
ghostty_terminal_get(terminal, GHOSTTY_TERMINAL_DATA_ROWS, &rows);
// Traverse the entire grid using grid refs
for (uint16_t row = 0; row < rows; row++) {
printf("Row %u: ", row);
for (uint16_t col = 0; col < cols; col++) {
// Resolve the point to a grid reference
GhosttyGridRef ref = GHOSTTY_INIT_SIZED(GhosttyGridRef);
GhosttyPoint pt = {
.tag = GHOSTTY_POINT_TAG_ACTIVE,
.value = { .coordinate = { .x = col, .y = row } },
};
result = ghostty_terminal_grid_ref(terminal, pt, &ref);
assert(result == GHOSTTY_SUCCESS);
// Read the cell from the grid ref
GhosttyCell cell;
result = ghostty_grid_ref_cell(&ref, &cell);
assert(result == GHOSTTY_SUCCESS);
// Check if the cell has text
bool has_text = false;
ghostty_cell_get(cell, GHOSTTY_CELL_DATA_HAS_TEXT, &has_text);
if (has_text) {
uint32_t codepoint = 0;
ghostty_cell_get(cell, GHOSTTY_CELL_DATA_CODEPOINT, &codepoint);
printf("%c", (char)codepoint);
} else {
printf(".");
}
}
// Also inspect the row for wrap state
GhosttyGridRef ref = GHOSTTY_INIT_SIZED(GhosttyGridRef);
GhosttyPoint pt = {
.tag = GHOSTTY_POINT_TAG_ACTIVE,
.value = { .coordinate = { .x = 0, .y = row } },
};
ghostty_terminal_grid_ref(terminal, pt, &ref);
GhosttyRow grid_row;
ghostty_grid_ref_row(&ref, &grid_row);
bool wrap = false;
ghostty_row_get(grid_row, GHOSTTY_ROW_DATA_WRAP, &wrap);
printf(" (wrap=%s", wrap ? "true" : "false");
// Check the style of the first cell with text
GhosttyStyle style = GHOSTTY_INIT_SIZED(GhosttyStyle);
ghostty_grid_ref_style(&ref, &style);
printf(", bold=%s)\n", style.bold ? "true" : "false");
}
ghostty_terminal_free(terminal);
return 0;
}
//! [grid-ref-traverse]