Intro

term_cursor is a crate for handling terminal cursor movement in a platform independent way. The supported platforms are:

• Windows
• Linux
• OS X (not tested)
• FreeBSD (not tested)
• OpenBSD (not tested)

API

This crate provides 2 APIs which can be used to achieve the same effects:

• A functions based approach, which provides very simple functions to directly interact with the terminal (see the functions section below).
• A newtype pattern based approach, that provies a bunch of types which all implement std::fmt::Display (see the structs section below). When such types get formatted, they operate on the terminal in a way very similar to the functions API.

Watch out!

Both APIs always operate on the "default" terminal that is bound to the process. In other words, on Windows GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE) is used, and on *NIX, the ANSI terminal communcation is done through stdout / stdin.