On 2016-10-06, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> 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.
Nothing magic, it just looks at the 'TERM' enviroment varible and
looks up that value in the terminfo database.
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