The Secret Rules of the Terminal Version:Print + PDF for most of the last

for most of the last 15 years

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The Secret Rules of the Terminal Version:Print + PDF for most of the lastThe terminal seems simple at first (you type in commands and run them! no big deal!), but the more you learn, the more you notice a million little inconsistencies (why does pressing the arrow keys sometimes print out "^[[D"? why does selecting text sometimes not work? why are the colours sometimes unreadable?) that make it feel like an inscrutable black box. And it often doesnt feel worth it to learn more because documentation about the terminal is so