# Owl
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Owl is a toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir.
It provides a convenient interface for
* colorizing text using tags
* input control with validations and casting to various data types
* select/multiselect controls, inspired by AUR package managers
* editing text in `ELIXIR_EDITOR`
* wrapping multiline colorized data into ASCII boxes
* printing palette colors
* progress bars and spinners, multiple bars/spinners at the same time are supported as well
* live-updating of multiline blocks
* working with virtual device which partially implements
[The Erlang I/O Protocol](https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/io_protocol.html) and doesn't conflict with live blocks.
## Demo
[](https://asciinema.org/a/vOL2PtAEWB88S9G93Iojwprj2)
## Installation
The package can be installed by adding `owl` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:owl, "~> 0.2.0"}
]
end
```
Documentation can be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/owl](https://hexdocs.pm/owl).
