On 03.03.2019 14:07, Jonathan Guy wrote: > Hi all > > Just out of curiosity in notify.c we have the two lines > > SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_printf(pool, "\rChecking r ")); > SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_printf(pool, "\rChecking r%ld...", n->revision)); > > Is there a specific reason \r is used and not \n?
Yes. \r is the carriage-return control code. If your screen were a teletype, it would do something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxKqOdQx-9k -- Brane
