Fix Terminals - Please
Fix Keyboard Input on Terminals - Please Keyboard input on Terminals has many deficiencies to it. I want them all fixed. I have a plan on how to do it but it Needs Your Help I want terminal keypresses to Just Work. What do I mean Just Work? I mean programs in a simple orthogonal way, can determine the key that was pressed, and this model should easily map to the user's expectation. Why doesn't it currently? Currently, there are a number of classes of physically-distinct key presses that terminals encode using the same bytes. Special names for some ASCII characters collide with
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