On 08Nov2018 10:00, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Note that I need this to be platform agnostic.
That's hard, even on a single platform like Linux.
Most, nearly all, terminal honour carriage return and backspace. That is
technically enough. Even terminals with a destructive backspace (rare -
it is normally just a cursor motion) can get by (backspace, overwrite
the new text).
Most xterminal windows use either the xterm or vt1000 set of commands,
which are broadly similar, but that's not guaranteed. If somebody
happens to be running a different terminal type, they'll see something
weird.
And I have no idea what happens on Windows.
I'd sort of expect Windows terminals, even cmd.exe, to accept the ANSI
sequences, which is what vt100 and xterms use. But that is expectation,
not knowledge.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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