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Re: [Help-bash] Storing cursor positions using tput into an array.


From: Sinbad
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Storing cursor positions using tput into an array.
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:12:12 +0530

> Have you looked at terminfo(5) or your operating system's equivalent?

with, 'tput sc' and 'tput rc' I will be able to store only one cursor
position.
I want to be able to store multiple locations and return to those positions
accordingly.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 06:24:16PM +0530, Sinbad wrote:
> > I want to extract the cursor positions using tput into an array and
> recover
> > to the stored cursor positions accordingly at later point in time.
>
> Have you looked at terminfo(5) or your operating system's equivalent?
>
>        restore_cursor                rc         rc        restore cursor to
>                                                           position of last
>                                                           save_cursor
>
>        save_cursor                   sc         sc        save current
> cursor
>                                                           position (P)
>


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