The only way to access the saved value is with the restore command. **There will be no value saved in memory until the first use of the save command. * If there are scroll margins set, RI inside the margins will scroll only the contents of the margins, and leave the viewport unchanged. Reverse Index – Performs the reverse operation of , moves cursor up one line, maintains horizontal position, scrolls buffer if necessary* These sequences have no parameters and take effect immediately.Īll commands in this table are generally equivalent to calling the SetConsoleCursorPosition console API to place the cursor.Ĭursor movement will be bounded by the current viewport into the buffer. The following table describes simple escape sequences with a single action command directly after the ESC character. For an example of how these sequences are used in practice, please see the example at the end of this topic. Individual terminal sequences can be split, at any character or byte position, across multiple sequential calls to WriteFile or WriteConsole but it is best practice to include the whole sequence in one call. No spaces are to be included in terminal sequences. In all of the following descriptions, ESC is always the hexadecimal value 0x1B. Note that the DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN flag may also be useful in emulating the cursor positioning and scrolling behavior of other terminal emulators in relation to characters written to the final column in any row. The following terminal sequences are intercepted by the console host when written into the output stream, if the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING flag is set on the screen buffer handle using the SetConsoleMode function. More information about terminal sequences can be found at and at. The behavior of the following sequences is based on the VT100 and derived terminal emulator technologies, most specifically the xterm terminal emulator. A sample of the suggested way to enable virtual terminal behaviors is included at the end of this document. You can use GetConsoleMode and SetConsoleMode functions to configure this behavior. Sequences may also be received on the input stream in response to an output stream query information sequence or as an encoding of user input when the appropriate mode is set. Virtual terminal sequences are control character sequences that can control cursor movement, console color, and other operations when written to the output stream.

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