Problem Statement

Demonstrate how to achieve movement of the terminal cursor:

For the purpose of this task, it is not permitted to overwrite any characters or attributes on any part of the screen (so outputting a space is not a suitable solution to achieve a movement to the right).

This task has no specific requirements to trap or correct cursor movement beyond the terminal boundaries, so the implementer should decide what behavior fits best in terms of the chosen language.   Explanatory notes may be added to clarify how an out of bounds action would behave and the generation of error messages relating to an out of bounds cursor position is permitted.

Let's start with the solution:

(call 'tput "cub1")                                # one position to the left
(call 'tput "cuf1")                                # one position to the right
(call 'tput "cuu1")                                # up one line
(call 'tput "cud1")                                # down one line
(call 'tput "cr")                                  # beginning of the line
(call 'tput "hpa" (sys "COLUMNS"))                 # end of the line
(call 'tput "home")                                # top left corner
(call 'tput "cup" (sys "LINES") (sys "COLUMNS"))   # bottom right corner