ESR on dropping terminfo and curses from an old Unix game

(twitter.com)

33 points | by Ariarule 10 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • smallerize 9 hours ago

    The only time I touch terming these days is because something broke in my environment and the $TERM got set to "screen-256color" instead of "screen", and less and vim stop working. In my case, assuming a normal terminal would actually be more reliable.

  • burnt-resistor 4 hours ago

    Compromised integrity is what happens when AI slop is acceptable.