What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’

Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by zokier on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:14PM (#34345791)

One thing that is missing is the termcap/terminfo system. For funsies, you can try to run your session with TERM=dumb to get a retro experience :)

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by nixpulvis on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @09:11PM (#34348202)

terminfo would be a good topic for a couple blogposts for sure. Back when I was first learning all this stuff I never felt like I truly understood all the intricacies of this system. I tried to understand back when alacritty made it's own entry, but a lot of things still feel somewhat arcane.

Basically, it's a capability list though, IIUC.

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by szgupta on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:11PM (#34359605)

Yeah I like to think of it as a capability list as well. There was a brief footnote [12] about $TERM in the post, but terminfo could certainly be dissected further.

[12](https://www.warp.dev/blog/what-happens-when-you-open-a-termi...)

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