Question

I have a program that uses a terminal in raw mode and I want to move the cursor around. Where can I find the escape sequence for this and how can I send it to the terminal from inside my c program?

Here’s what I currently have:

char code[4]; code[0] = 27; code[1] = 91; code[2] = '*'; code[3] = 'D'; write(1, code, 4); 

Answer 1

If you want control of the full screen then you should look at the ncurses library. This is a simple library for full screen console programs that contains among other things

• Full screen positioning of text
• Use of the full keyboard including function keys, insert/delete etc
• Use of attributes for colouring, highlighting of text etc