Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals

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>so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY

Please either write a "modern" replacement or show us that one exists, before proceeding to tell us not to use ncurses.

Alexander Burger, author of PicoLisp, has done something similar by outputting ANSI codes directly:

https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg090...

(Vip is a vi clone written in PicoLisp)

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