Current cursor location

[SAM_24]

Hi,

Is there any way to find out current location of the cursor(I mean row & column) in a terminal? I learn from ITRC i can position the cursor using tput command. But I want to know it is possible to know current cursor location and.

Thanks.

[Mark Grant]

This really really depends on your terminal. I remember some Wyse terminals would report the cursor position if sent the correct "escape" sequence.

I don't think there is a terminfo capability for reading a cursor position. However, you can "save" the cursor position with "tput sc" and then go back there sometime later with "tput rc". So if you are trying to read the cursor position in order to go back to where you started after doing some cursor positioning stuff, this might be the way to go.

[Rodney Hills]

Depending on the terminal type, you can usually send a status request escape sequence which can return the current cursor position. What you send and what is received are totally terminal dependent.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There is no terminfo sequence defined for this functtion. In general, it's not needed because there is a sequence 'mrcup' that works just like 'cup' except that for mrcup the commands are relative to the current current position rather than an absolute position. The bad news is that not all that many terminfo definitions have mrcup because it was really never needed for curses.