Cursor being repositioned incorrectly

[jameshibbard]

Module isn't working for me on bash on Linux Mint.

bash --version
$ GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

I did:

npm install clear
node
var clear = require("clear");
clear();

I see:

Notice the weird character before undefined?

I think this has something to do with the character sequence you are using to reset the cursor position:

In clear/index.js line 5 we have:

process.stdout.write('\033[0f');

According to this page:

Position the Cursor: \033[;H Or \033[;f puts the cursor at line L and column C.

And sure enough, changing it to:

process.stdout.write('\033[0;0f');

Makes things work as expected:

[lequer]

Same on Ubuntu 16.04, bash version 4.3.46
process.stdout.write('\033[0;0f');
work as expected.

[bahamas10]

Thanks for the detailed report - sorry I didn't see this sooner. I just published [email protected] now. I don't have an Ubuntu machine to test on but if you could test again that would be much appreciated. If it still fails I can look into modifying it to use the sequence you pasted above.

[jameshibbard]

Hi, I can confirm that this works on the latest version of Linux Mint (18.3). Thanks for the fix.