Editing SuperBASIC (section)

===== Control characters for cursor and colour control =====
In BASIC the following character codes can be used with <code>print</code> to control the cursor position and colours on the screen.
{| class="wikitable"
!Code
!Effect
|-
|chr$(1)
|Set cursor to leftmost position in current line
|-
|chr$(2)
|Cursor left
|-
|chr$(5)
|Set cursor to righmost position in current line
|-
|chr$(6)
|Cursor right
|-
|chr$(11)
|Deletes characters from cursor position to line end
|-
|chr$(12)
|Clear screen and set cursor to upper left corner
|-
|chr$(13)
|Move cursor to start of next line
|-
|chr$(14)
|Cursor down
|-
|chr$(16)
|Cursor up
|-
|chr$(128) - chr$(143)
|Set foreground color. Code 128 is black 143 is white. The rest follows the sequence given below
|-
|chr$(144) - chr$(159)
|Set background color. Code 144 is black 159 is white. The rest follows the sequence given below
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Colour code
!Colour
!Colour code
!Colour
|-
|0
|Black
|8
|Dark grey
|-
|1
|Grey
|9
|Light grey (default foreground)
|-
|2
|Dark blue (default background colour)
|10
|Blue
|-
|3
|Green
|11
|Light green
|-
|4
|Purple
|12
|Light purple
|-
|5
|Brown
|13
|Red
|-
|6
|Orange
|14
|Yellow
|-
|7
|Light blue
|15
|White
|}