Well, the question may sound a bit too vague but here’s 2 things I

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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T21:19:52+00:00 2026-06-17T21:19:52+00:00

Well, the question may sound a bit too vague but here’s 2 things I need to do and I’d definitely need some input on this :

Output something (e.g. using cout) with color (note: My TERM environment variable is set to xterm-color if that makes any difference; also, is there any uniform way to output colored text that’s compatible with both pure mac and *nix terminals in general, so that the code is portable)
Output something at the same position on the terminal screen. OK, this may sound confusing too. Let’s take a terminal app which simply outputs a progress percentage. It normally won’t start a new line for that. The new value is shown at the very same spot. How is this doable? (Being a once Borland Pascal guy from the good old DOS days, the only thing I could think of is something to do with accessing video memory directly… or not?)

So… any ideas?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-17T21:19:53+00:00

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You probably want to use ncurses library. And ANSI escape codes can also be used for coloring.

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