feat(cli): Introduce askForCursorPositionSync #6757
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Read (#6755) for an overview.
#6756 should be merged before this.
This function asks the terminal for the current position of the cursor. It is sync to prevent race conditions and its contents in complex in the hopes to guarantee reading the terminals response. It should not be used frequently as it does seem to introduce a noticeable delay, but in rare times the exact position of the cursor needs to be asked for.
This example is how it can be used but honestly using
Ansi.saveCursorPosition
andAnsi.restoreCursorPosition
would have been much better and reliable.No tests as of yet have been written for this class as I don't know how to reliably check that its cursor position hasn't changed between writing and reading, especially with all the other tests also writing to the terminal.