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Charlotte 🦝 therian

Edited 18 days ago

i hate terminfo, like how does it look at “xterm-kitty” and not decide “hmmm maybe it could be compatible with the terminal emulator that is compatible with all terminals everyone uses nowadays” and instead “clearly this Must be a dumb teletypewriter nobody has ever used seriously in 40 years”

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@charlotte it's like if someone took browser user agents to a logical extreme. i ended up with an alias for ssh to point to kitty's kitten ssh (copies over terminfo and keeps sessions alive) but recently swapped to alacritty

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@arch it would be great if it took the approach of browser user agents, but no we got the shittiest exact match possible

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@arch and like, a lot of things on the web thankfully don’t use user agents, and there’s ways to detect feature support in browsers without using user agents, and the common denominator that software falls back tends to not be “baudot teletype mode from 1940”

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