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mihnita / ansi-econsole

Eclipse plugin that understands ANSI escape sequences to color the Eclipse console output.
http://www.mihai-nita.net/java/
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Cursor movements #24

Closed paulvi closed 7 years ago

paulvi commented 8 years ago

Is it feasible to support cursor movement? see https://github.com/de-jcup/egradle/issues/107#issuecomment-254959205

mihnita commented 7 years ago

It is not possible (from all I know) to implement cursor movement in the standard Eclipse console. All I can get there is a callback for each line asking me to return a bunch of offsets + attributes. There is no way to touch other lines, or even the current one. All you can do is color it.

It might be possible to write a full console replacement (and there are at least 2 I know of). But I don't know of any way to replace the standard console with your own. Which means they will not be used as standard / error output from applications.

paulvi commented 7 years ago

What console replacement can you recall?