Re: terminal or cursor control

[Ben Sapp]

"E. Joshua Rigler" wrote:
> 
> Is it possible in Octave to rewrite a line without sending a newline?
> In otherwords, I want to send the values from a timer to stdout, but I
> don't want the whole screen to scroll.  I just want the bottom line to
> reprint over and over with the updated values of my timer/counter
> variable.
> 
> I hope there might be a simple way to return to the beginning of the
> line, but I would be satisfied if I could simply print backspace
> characters or something similar.

I think this will do somehting pretty close to what you want:

page_screen_output = 0;
page_output_immediately = 1;
octave:162> for i = 1:100
> printf("\r%d",i);
> sleep(1);
> endfor

The "\r" returns you to the beginning of the current line.  This little
script will print a 1, then a 2, ... all the way up to 100.   All on the
same line and erasing the number that was there before.  

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