How do you edit existing text (and move the cursor around) in the terminal?

Question

I saw this demo once that printed out a paragraph of text (like you\'d get when typing some-command --help), and it then jumped back up to a couple keywords in

Answer 1

Finally found that "demo":

• https://github.com/asyncly/cdir/blob/223fe0039fade4fad2bb08c2f7affac3bdcf2f89/cdir.js#L24
• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x361.html

• http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php

• Position the Cursor: \033[;H or \033[;f (puts the cursor at line L and column C)

• Move the cursor up N lines: \033[A
• Move the cursor down N lines: \033[B
• Move the cursor forward N columns: \033[C
• Move the cursor backward N columns: \033[D
• Clear the screen, move to (0,0): \033[2J
• Erase to end of line: \033[K
• Save cursor position: \033[s
• Restore cursor position: \033[u