Whenever I run fmt.Print("\033c") in golang on windows cmd it does not clear screen but prints c whenever I do console.log("\033c") in javascript it works fine.
According to the following links this should have worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Windows
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences#samples
I have tried logging it in javascript and it works fine I also tried adding a character to the end which printed c and changing it to \x1bc which also just printed: c
the following all prints: c on windows cmd
func main() {
fmt.Print("\033c")
fmt.Print("\033c
")
fmt.Print("\x1bc")
fmt.Print("\x1bc
")
fmt.Println("\033c")
fmt.Println("\x1bc")
}
I expected that it would just clear the screen as in javascript but for some reason it doesn't
To clarify I am talking about that the ANSI escape code is not working.
The problem was that windows needs the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING(0x0004) console flag I fixed it by using the following code to add the flag to the console:
package main
// #include "Windows.h"
import "C"
import "fmt"
func main() {
// Needed for getting handle and getting current console mode
var mode C.DWORD
handle := C.GetStdHandle(C.STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
C.GetConsoleMode(handle, &mode)
// Enable Virtual Terminal Processing by adding the flag to the current mode
C.SetConsoleMode(handle, mode|0x0004)
fmt.Print("\033c")
}
===EDIT===
Like Matmarbon mentioned in the comments // #include "Windows.h" line is nessecary and you need to have an gcc installed