Julia Evans on Nostr: spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters ...
spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix
there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled at the application for enter (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)
(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)
there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled at the application for enter (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)
(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)