Can plotters support plot on terminal?

[alienzj]

Hi, Hao,

Can plotters support the plot on the terminal?

I want to plot long reads distribution directly on the terminal. If plotters support this, it would be awesome.

Best regards,
Jie

[38]

Hi Jie,

Sorry for delayed reply - I was not able to actively work on the crate until now.

There's a text backend see https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters-text which is WIP. So you probably needs to import the crate from github. Feel to try it. For example.

use plotters_text::TextDrawingBackend;
use plotters::prelude::*;

let back = TextDrawingBackend::new(70, 30);
let root = back.into_drawing_area();

// Same plotting code goes here

Please let me know if you have any question.

At this time, I would like to close this issue and open another issue under plotters-text repo plotters-rs/plotters-text#3 to tracking it.

Cheers!

[alienzj]

Great !
Thanks for your reply.
I will try it.

[SOF3]

I want a plotters backend for a TUI framework like ratatui. Does anyone have similar plans, or should I try working on it?