get_x(3)

✨ NAME ✨

get_x — bestie, this is the lil gstream function that tells you where your cursor's at horizontally 💖

It lives in the gstream manual, section 3 (that's the library-calls section, iykyk 🎀), so if you're out here reading get_x(3) you're in exactly the right place, no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <gstream.h>

int get_x();

So like, you gotta pull in gstream.h first — that's the whole vibe, one include, one function, we love a low-effort queen 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the tea: get_x() returns the cursor's x position. That's it. That's the whole function. She's short, she's sweet, she's giving main character energy with a one-line job description 🫶

The x position of the cursor — that's the horizontal one, the side-to-side one, the one that goes left and right ✨ Not the y. We do not do y here. That's somebody else's problem, fr fr.

Return type is int, so you're getting a whole number back, and you can just... use it. Store it, print it, math it, whatever your heart desires 💖

not me being obsessed with a function that does literally one thing 😭 iconic behaviour honestly

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• gstream-goto_x(3) — the other half of the duo!! 🎀 if get_x is the one asking "where are we bestie", gstream-goto_x(3) is the one going "say less, I got you" and moving the cursor there 💫 go read her too, they're a set, they're a package deal, they ate 🔥

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okay and that's the whole page!! short and sweet and honestly? a slay ✨

this one's from the gstream manual, version 1.6 — that's the version, that's the whole footer, no date on this one, so just hold onto the 1.6 and the gstream name and you're golden 💜

mwah, go write some cursed terminal code bestie 🫶💅🌟