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24.4; Support ANSI escape Cursor Horizontal Absolute (CHA) positioning in term.el

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From: "Tim Taylor" <tim <at> tool-man.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; Support ANSI escape Cursor Horizontal Absolute (CHA)
 positioning in term.el
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT)

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Some CLIs use the ANSI escape `ESC[nG` (aka Cursor Horizontal Absolute
or CHA). For example, `ESC[0G` will move the cursor to column 0. This
escape currently isn't supported by `term-handle-ansi-escape`. The
output of a command like `npm install` appears a series of characters
like "-\|/-\|..." instead of the intended progress spinner effect.


The simplest test case:


    printf "hello\033[0Gworld\n"


Within term/ansi-term will display "helloworld", but in other terminal
emulators display "world".


Relevant StackExchange Q&A including my workaround:


    http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/10698/6709


My workaround also included here:


    (defun toolbear:term-handle-ansi-escape (proc char)
      "Handle additional ansi escapes."
      (cond
       ;; \E[nG - Cursor Horizontal Absolute, e.g. move cursor to column n (terminfo: cuf, cuf1)
       ((eq char ?G)
        (let ((col (min term-width (max 0 term-terminal-parameter))))
          (term-move-columns (- col (term-current-column)))))
       (t)))
    (advice-add 'term-handle-ansi-escape :before #'toolbear:term-handle-ansi-escape)


Cheers,
Tim






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ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-x C-s ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A 
ESC O A ESC O B C-@ ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC ; C-x C-s C-_ C-x s 
! ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B C-@ ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B 
ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-\ ESC | p 
b c o p y RET ESC O B ESC O A ESC O B ESC O B C-g C-_ 
C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ 
C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ ESC 
O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O D DEL # ' C-x C-s ESC x b 
u g TAB TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL 
DEL DEL DEL DEL r e p o r t TAB RET


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Message #8 received at 20336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: "Tim Taylor" <tim <at> tool-man.org>
Cc: 20336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20336: 24.4;
 Support ANSI escape Cursor Horizontal Absolute (CHA) positioning in
 term.el
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:33:04 -0400

fixed 20336 26.1
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"Tim Taylor" <tim <at> tool-man.org> writes:

> The simplest test case:
>
>
>     printf "hello\033[0Gworld\n"
>
>
> Within term/ansi-term will display "helloworld", but in other terminal
> emulators display "world".

This works in Emacs 26.

[1: caa31fcaa2]: 2016-04-21 18:59:37 +0300
  Support absolute column movement in 'ansi-term'
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=caa31fcaa2fc7b05e411c8155d7641e7660a735a

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