User Interface Suggestions? (newbie)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:03 pm, BartC wrote:

> I'd quite like to know too. However I've just tried a test sequence
> ("<esc>[P1d" to move the cursor to row 1) and it didn't work. If there's
> reason why something so basic won't work (hence the need for curses etc)
> then that would be useful to know too. (And how does curses manage it?!)

I believe that curses uses a large database of terminal types and associated
escape sequences. So when you start it up, it determines what terminal type
you have (that's black magic itself) and then works out what escape
sequences you need.





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Steve
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