[Info-vax] escape sequences, cursor positioning

[acid.friend at yahoo.de]

On Jan 11, 8:11 am, Hein RMS van den Heuvel
<heinvandenheu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 3:49 am, acid.fri... at yahoo.de wrote:
>
> > hi everybody,
> > it might be interesting for you to read my previous topic:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_thread/thread/37b3e...
> :
> > i've found out that some escape seqences work very well and other
> > don't work and now i'm trying to find some help here.
>
> I hope that your working attitude is that beginners do not find
> massive problems such as non-working escape secquences, all they find
> is areas they do not understand well enough.
>
> Possible cause of trouble here: DCL terminates each write with a
> <CR><LF>
> Possible solution here: put the positioning escape sequence in the
> PROMPT.
> Hint, instead of the classic "''symbol'" try &symbol.
>
> For example:
>
> $ x = esc + "[2C" + esc + "[4m"
> $!
> $ read sys$command input1/prompt=&x
> $ say esc+ "[m"
>
> When in doubt, switch the terminal to "DISPLAY CONTROL" (or somehting
> along those lines) in its setup screen(s).
>
> Enjoy,
> Hein

wonderful! it works.
now i can give my fancy full scope.