LF — Line Feed

Byte	0x0A
Mnemonic	LF
Otty support	✓

Description

Moves the cursor down one row. The column does not change — to start a new line in the leftmost column you need CR LF (or NEL).

If the cursor is at the bottom of the active region, LF scrolls the region up by one line.

When LNM (line-feed/new-line mode, CSI 20 h) is set, LF behaves like NEL (also moves to column 1). LNM is off by default; almost all modern programs assume CR-then-LF for newlines.

Example

printf 'line1\nline2'    # \n is the C escape for LF
                          # output: line1 \n line2 — note "line2" starts under
                          # the last column of "line1" if no CR is sent

Related

• CR — pair with LF for "newline".
• NEL — combined CR + LF in one byte sequence.