Red Echo

October 28, 2014

Terminals are weird: quirks of the ways control and alt keys are represented in a standard unix style terminal.

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  1. Gave a talk on terminal matters last year at LUGOD, including internal details of this sort. :)

    http://micah.cowan.name/projects/term-talk/
    (If you check out the slides, pressing “t” will present it as a single, full webpage instead of the presentation format).

    Hoping to find the time to turn it into a series of youtubes or something. Or possibly to give the talk at my now-local LUG in Portland.

    Comment by Micah Cowan — October 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm