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i am thinking of three options for that:
- home the cursor and move by rows and columns using individual characters
- find the cursor-pointing control characters
- use the curses library

i'm thinking i might consider using curses's tput functionality, kind
of a middle ground between the last two options.

there's a big axe stuck in my behavior around curses, so it could be
harder unless i'm prepared or such