Julia EvansJul 8, 2024
entering text in the terminal is complicated https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/08/readline/
Entering text in the terminal is complicated

Entering text in the terminal is complicated

Julia Evans
Show threadJulia EvansJul 8, 2024

someone in the replies elsewhere pointed out that Ctrl+J = 10 in the ASCII table = LF ("line feed") = Enter (because J is the 10th letter of the alphabet)

so Ctrl+J is the same as pressing enter

which I don't have any practical use for but is kind of cool

(edit: some corrections in this reply: https://pgh.social/@ben/112752235264922484)

Ben Cox (@[email protected])

@[email protected] This isn't quite right in a few ways. LF is decimal 10, ascii 0x0a. It is 10 because it's the 10th letter of the alphabet, though. But it's not the same as pressing enter except in cooked tty modes, where the terminal driver converts the return key (^M, \r, ASCII 13 / 0x0d) to a newline (^J, LF, 10/0xa) which your program then sees as its input.

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@b0rk it is just how it was designed. control plus keys of ascii lines 4x and 5x gives characters in lines 0 and 1 (block C0).And esc will gives lines 8 and 9 so block C1. But now we uses the “7 bits alias” so esc as control [. Much history but less ideal in modern world. usefulness to know c-j? imho just on binary/hex dumps
Jul 8, 2024 at 6:46pmWeb