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Get Cursor Position in Terminal with Node.js
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module.exports = function(callback) { | |
require('child_process').exec('./cursor-position.sh', function(error, stdout, stderr) { | |
callback(error, JSON.parse(stdout)); | |
}); | |
} |
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#!/bin/bash | |
# based on a script from http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html | |
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2575037/how-to-get-the-cursor-position-in-bash | |
exec < /dev/tty | |
oldstty=$(stty -g) | |
stty raw -echo min 0 | |
# on my system, the following line can be replaced by the line below it | |
echo -en "\033[6n" > /dev/tty | |
# tput u7 > /dev/tty # when TERM=xterm (and relatives) | |
IFS=';' read -r -d R -a pos | |
stty $oldstty | |
# change from one-based to zero based so they work with: tput cup $row $col | |
row=$((${pos[0]:2} - 1)) # strip off the esc-[ | |
col=$((${pos[1]} - 1)) | |
echo \{\"row\":$row,\"column\":$col\} |
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var getCursorPosition = require('./cursor-position'); | |
getCursorPosition(function(error, position) { | |
console.log('row:', position.row, 'column:', position.column) | |
}); |
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