vt220 Status Display

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     On the VT220 emulation is the status line on the top or bottom?  What are the escape sequences used to display and clear the status line?  My default vt220 terminfo entry does not have a status line defined.  To have a bottom status line, would another vt emulation be a better choice?

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randrx1 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: February 02 2005 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote randrx1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: vt220 Status Display Posted: August 04 2006 at 5:28pm
	On the VT220 emulation is the status line on the top or bottom? What are the escape sequences used to display and clear the status line? My default vt220 terminfo entry does not have a status line defined. To have a bottom status line, would another vt emulation be a better choice?

PSchellenbach Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Moderator Joined: December 15 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2150	Post Options Post Reply Quote PSchellenbach Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 08 2006 at 3:31am
	Hi Randrx - VT220 indeed supports a status line at the bottom of the screen. ESC [ 2 $ ~ displays the status line, ESC [ 1 $ } moves cursor to the status line so that you can update it, ESC [ 0 $ } moves cursor back to screen. When the cursor is in the status line, you can use CR to move the cursor to the first column of the status line, and you can use visual attributes to highlight fields in the status line. Thanks, Pete