USENIX Technical Program - Abstract

USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX 99

New Tricks for an Old Terminal Driver

Eric Fischer, University of Chicago

Abstract

Users expect more out of command lines than they did fifteen years ago, but the terminal interface has not evolved to keep up with their expectations. With a few modifications, though, the terminal driver can provide every program with support for the arrow keys and several common Emacs commands.

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