Changing the stdin mode requires OS specific code, for example on Posix systems you will use functions from termios.h and on Windows functions from windows.h. If you want to not mess your already printed text, you will need a way to put the stdin stream in a no echo, unbuffered mode, read the cursor position from stdin and parse the string to recover the actual coordinates. The problem with the above is that the position will be shown on the Terminal in this format: ^[[row colR You can also inquire about the current cursor position using: printf ( ' \x1b [6n' ) // Print current cursor position This is what I see on my machine, if I run the above code: Please note that I’ve placed the ANSI escape codes for saving and restoring the cursor position in two new functions saveCursorPosition and restoreCursorPosition
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