Cursor position (CUP)

Category: cursor · Tags: ECMA-48 Standard, VT100 · Specification ↗

CUP (Cursor Position) moves the cursor to an absolute row and column. The sequence is ESC [ row ; col H, where row and column are 1-based. ESC [ H (no parameters) moves to the home position (1,1). This is the most fundamental cursor positioning command and is used by every full-screen TUI application.

Supported by 6 of 6 backends (100%)

Support Matrix

Backend	Version	Support	Notes
Alacritty	0.26.0	✓ yes
Ghostty	1.3.1	✓ yes
Kitty	0.40.0	✓ yes
vt100	0.1.0	✓ yes
WezTerm	0.1.0-fork.5	✓ yes
xterm.js	5.5.0	✓ yes

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