wait, you're arguing that devices should emulate a typewriter that hasn't existed for 30 years because it somehow makes them easier to debug, while this thread is about how they cause obscure problems that require you to understand escape codes to fix for things as basic as key mapping? perl does not make anything easier to debug... everytime i read perl i have to learn the subset this particular user is using, and everything in perl is a backdoor like 10x worse than bash