HVP — Horizontal and vertical position (CSI f, alias of CUP)

Move the cursor to absolute (row, col) — semantically identical to CUP but uses final byte `f` instead of `H`.

Byte forms

Every common string-literal form so you can paste-and-search either direction.

\\x1b[\x1b[<row>;<col>f

\\033[\033[1;1f

\\e[\e[1;1f

ESC [ESC [ row ; col f

hex1b 5b ... 66

Description

Horizontal and Vertical Position. ECMA-48 §8.3.61 defines HVP with the SAME semantics as CUP (`\x1b[r;cH`, §8.3.21) — move the cursor to the absolute 1-based row/col, default (1,1), values clamped to the visible region. The difference is purely the final byte: `H` (0x48) for CUP, `f` (0x66) for HVP. Both are widely emitted in the wild — some applications still use the older `f` form, notably parts of curses' default capability table and certain DEC VT-clone test vectors. Treat HVP exactly like CUP when decoding; emit CUP (`H`) when writing new code unless you need to match a legacy stream. Note: in ECMA-48 HVP was historically the canonical primitive and CUP the synonym; xterm-ctlseqs reverses the relationship and treats CUP as primary, reflecting modern usage.

Spec citation: ECMA-48 §8.3.61 (HVP) / xterm-ctlseqs

Examples

bash

printf '\033[2;5fHello at (2,5)\n'   # same as \033[2;5H

python

print('\x1b[2;5fHello at (2,5)')

fmt.Print("\x1b[2;5fHello at (2,5)\n")

javascript

process.stdout.write('\x1b[2;5fHello at (2,5)\n')

printf("\x1b[2;5fHello at (2,5)\n");

Terminal support

xterm: yes
Linux console (fbcon): yes
macOS Terminal.app: yes
iTerm2: yes
Windows Terminal: yes
cmd.exe / ConPTY: yes
kitty: yes
alacritty: yes
WezTerm: yes
Ghostty: yes
GNOME Terminal: yes
Konsole: yes
tmux: no
GNU screen: no

xterm	Linux console (fbcon)	macOS Terminal.app	iTerm2	Windows Terminal	cmd.exe / ConPTY	kitty	alacritty	WezTerm	Ghostty	GNOME Terminal	Konsole	tmux	GNU screen
yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no

Related sequences

In the family cookbook

CSI cookbook · 2. Cursor movement — CUU / CUD / CUF / CUB + CUP + CHA / VPA