Julia Evans on Nostr: trying to explain typing in the terminal is so weird, it's like "well when you press ...

trying to explain typing in the terminal is so weird, it's like "well when you press keys on your keyboard, we don't really have a consistent way to encode them and send them to your shell, like we kind of do but there's no single standard and it breaks a lot”

ctrl-shift-a? not allowed, it's just ctrl-a
alt-a? may or may not work
backspace? _almost_ always works
command-left arrow? no.

(please do not reply to this with a lecture on terminal history or to explain what an "escape code" is to me)