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Terminal applications may perform expensive rendering work even when their output cannot be seen.

Terminal applications commonly use bracketed paste mode (private mode 2004) to distinguish between typed input and pasted content.

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As an excercise in syscall golf, I wrote an implementation of ls(1) which uses my IO library, ourio to perform as much of the IO as possible.

Originally published at GitHub Gist Terminal emulators typically receive window resize events by installing a signal handler for the SIGWINCH signal.