Julia Evans on Nostr: anyway i’m curious about whether anyone has documented terminal UI conventions ...
anyway i’m curious about whether anyone has documented terminal UI conventions somewhere like “if you’re writing a REPL you should imitate readline for line editing somehow” and “if you’re displaying a lot of text maybe open ‘less’” and “turn off colour when writing to a pipe”
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