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# Crossterm Cursor | cross-platform cursor movement.
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This crate allows you to move the terminal cursor cross-platform.
It supports all UNIX and windows terminals down to windows 7 (not all terminals are tested see [Tested Terminals](#tested-terminals) for more info)
This crate is a sub-crate of [crossterm](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm) to move the cursor, and can be use individually.
Other sub-crates are:
- [Crossterm Style](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm_style)
- [Crossterm Terminal](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm_terminal)
- [Crossterm Screen](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm_screen)
- [Crossterm Input](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm_input)
When you want to use other modules as well you might want to use crossterm with [feature flags](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/first-edition/conditional-compilation.html)
## Table of contents:
- [Getting started](#getting-started)
- [Useful links](#useful-links)
- [Features](#features)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Tested Terminals](#tested-terminals)
- [Notice](#notice)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Authors](#authors)
- [License](#license)
## Getting Started
This documentation is only for `crossterm_cursor` version `0.1` if you have an older version I suggest you check the [Upgrade Manual](https://github.com/TimonPost/crossterm/blob/master/docs/UpgradeManual.md). Also, check out the [examples](https://github.com/TimonPost/crossterm/tree/master/examples) folders with detailed examples for all functionality of this crate.
Add the `crossterm_cursor` package to your `Cargo.toml` file.
```
[dependencies]
`crossterm_cursor` = "0.1"
```
And import the crossterm_input modules you want to use.
```rust
extern crate crossterm_cursor;
pub use crossterm_cursor::{cursor, TerminalCursor};
```
### Useful Links
- [Documentation](https://docs.rs/crossterm_cursor/)
- [Crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/crossterm_cursor)
- [Examples](/examples)
## Features
These are the features of this crate:
- Cross-platform
- Everything is multithreaded (Send, Sync)
- Detailed documentation on every item
- Very few dependenties.
- Cursor.
- Moving _n_ times Up, Down, Left, Right
- Goto a certain position
- Get cursor position
- Storing the current cursor position and resetting to that stored cursor position later
- Hiding an showing the cursor
- Control over blinking of the terminal cursor (only some terminals are supporting this)
## Examples
Check out the [examples](/examples/) for more information about how to use this crate.
```rust
use crossterm_cursor::cursor;
let mut cursor = cursor();
/// Moving the cursor
// Set the cursor to position X: 10, Y: 5 in the terminal
cursor.goto(10,5);
// Move the cursor up,right,down,left 3 cells.
cursor.move_up(3);
cursor.move_right(3);
cursor.move_down(3);
cursor.move_left(3);
/// Safe the current cursor position to recall later
// Goto X: 5 Y: 5
cursor.goto(5,5);
// Safe cursor position: X: 5 Y: 5
cursor.save_position();
// Goto X: 5 Y: 20
cursor.goto(5,20);
// Print at X: 5 Y: 20.
print!("Yea!");
// Reset back to X: 5 Y: 5.
cursor.reset_position();
// Print 'Back' at X: 5 Y: 5.
print!("Back");
// hide cursor
cursor.hide();
// show cursor
cursor.show();
// blink or not blinking of the cursor (not widely supported)
cursor.blink(true)
```
## Tested terminals
- Windows Powershell
- Windows 10 (pro)
- Windows CMD
- Windows 10 (pro)
- Windows 8.1 (N)
- Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
- Ubuntu 17.10
- (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
- Linux Mint
This crate supports all Unix terminals and windows terminals down to Windows 7 but not all of them have been tested.
If you have used this library for a terminal other than the above list without issues feel free to add it to the above list, I really would appreciate it.
## Notice
This library is average stable now, I don't expect it to not to change that much.
If there are any changes that will affect previous versions I will [describe](https://github.com/TimonPost/crossterm/blob/master/docs/UpgradeManual.md) what to change to upgrade.
## Contributing
I highly appreciate it when you are contributing to this crate.
Also Since my native language is not English my grammar and sentence order will not be perfect.
So improving this by correcting these mistakes will help both me and the reader of the docs.
## Authors
* **Timon Post** - *Project Owner & creator*
## License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/TimonPost/crossterm/blob/master/LICENSE) file for details