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Julia Evans Jul 8, 2024

entering text in the terminal is complicated https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/08/readline/

Entering text in the terminal is complicated

Julia Evans

Julia Evans Jul 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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Anders Roos

@b0rk I don't know how you are supposed to get to know all the features of a tools you use. Are you expected to read the full man pages end to end for a shell? They are one hundred pages or more. It is much more normal to come across a feature whe you search for a solution to a specific problem or watch someone else do something. So easy to miss something really useful for a long time.