[maemo-developers] xterm cant escape so my cursor is homeless (echo -e "\033[H")

From: tz thomas at mich.com
Date: Fri Jan 2 16:35:59 EET 2009
> The problem is probably that busybox echo does not support -e. You'll
> need to use real esc instead of escaping it.

Actually it does.  The echo -e "\033[H" >x.txt will show up with the
actual escape character.

But "cat x.txt" then won't move the cursor.

And "top" works and I don't think it uses something special.

Perhaps something else is going on if I'm in bash/console (including
maybe some restore/move)

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