Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
Yeah this is very very far from &quot;everything&quot;. Among many things it doesn&#x27;t speak of ptys.<p>And terminfo, pty, ctty, process groups, and the rendering width of a utf-8 string, and, and and…<p>&gt; i might be one of a handful of people left on earth who actually has the knowledge to<p>Uh, no. Anyone on BBSes in the 90s is very aware of ANSI, thank you. And we&#x27;ve not died off yet.<p>And honestly it&#x27;s really not that hard at all. Even on the topic of terminals this is not even the hardest aspect of it.<p>&gt; i have effectively zero pull in the tech community<p>If you think there&#x27;s all there&#x27;s to terminals, yet you act as if you know it all, then you shouldn&#x27;t have any pull.<p>I would also not accept any pull request that looked even remotely like their example code.<p>Here&#x27;s a more interesting article about a less understood aspect of terminals: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linusakesson.net&#x2F;programming&#x2F;tty&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linusakesson.net&#x2F;programming&#x2F;tty&#x2F;index.php</a>