DEC ANSI command sequence questions; cursor movement
I got in touch with Thomas Dickey (invisible-island.net) who maintains xterm and vttest - he explained that CSI 0 C
is the same as CSI 1 C
or CSI C
in xterm.
For anyone looking for more information on terminal programming I highly recommend checking out the xterm source he hosts - specifically the ctlseqs.txt inside xterm, which looks very much like the one true terminal control sequences reference I've been searching for.