[Beginner question] Is there a way to control the position of the caret/cursor?

[SteveMCWin]

I want to use the real caret instead of the bubbles/cursor, which I've tried to accomplish using the termenv package with no success. The cursor does get moved but instantly returns to the bottom left of the console window. I've taken a look at the source code of bubbletea and noticed that it puts the cursor there on purpose but I still don't know how I could get around that.
Note that in cases where the View method gets called but doesn't re-render anything, the cursor actually moves and behaves how it should, but that is pretty much an edge case.

[Cjreek]

You can with v2:
#1374

[SteveMCWin]

Thanks a lot, didn't even think of checking that out!

[tamish-max]

In v1, not really: the renderer owns the terminal cursor and restores it after each draw, which is why it snaps back.

If you need the real terminal caret at a specific cell, the clean answer is Bubble Tea v2. In v2 you can set the cursor from the view (v.Cursor = tea.NewCursor(x, y)) or return a Cursor() from the model, so the framework knows where to place the actual terminal cursor.

If you stay on v1, the usual workaround is to use the bubbles virtual cursor / textarea rather than trying to manage the terminal cursor directly.