Save Cursor (DECSC) — Terminal Guide

Save cursor position and further state.

The primary and alternate screen have distinct save state.

The following state is saved:

the state of mode cursor origin (but not its saved state for restore mode)
the current attributes
If newly printed characters are protected (like start protected area or select character protection attribute)
the current cursor position, relative to the origin set via cursor origin.
pending wrap state
GL and GR character sets.
G0, G1, G2, G3 character sets.

One saved state is kept per screen (main / alternative). If for the current screen state was already saved it is overwritten.

The state can be restored using restore cursor

urxvt ( ✓ )

🛆 the current cursor position is not saved relative to the origin set via cursor origin. 🛆 Not saved:

xterm ( ✔ )

🛈 Until xterm 335 in left and right margin mode restoring of the cursor position was broken.

vte ( ✓ )

konsole ( ✓ )

🛆 Does not store G0 - G3. But stores current mapping of GL and GR. 🛈 Before version 22.04.0, did not store state of mode cursor origin 🛆 cursor position is stored absolute (not with regard to origin) 🛆 Does not store pending wrap state.

linuxvc ( ✓ )

🛆 the current cursor position is not saved relative to the origin set via cursor origin. 🛆 Not saved: