Hello, I'm currently trying to develop an application that should be able to run, at least, in an X11 XTerm. However, using only stdout to output things to the terminal is not not enough, because I need to do the following: - Make some parts of the text bold, or underline them - Change the color of the font or the background - Move the write cursor to an arbitrary position in the terminal I am perfectly willing to restrict myself to less than an X11 XTerm if there is no general API for this, however I would like pointers to what kind of library I should use to do this. Thank you.

I think that ncurses should be able to do everything you want, as long as the terminfo is setup correctly, though I'm not sure about the underlining thing.

I have checked NCurses, and it does everything I need, including underlining.

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