Inputoutput

Terminals

Basics

• Wikipedia:Pseudo terminal
• Wikipedia:Virtual console (computer user-interface)
• Wikipedia:Terminal emulator
• Wikipedia:Control character
• Wikipedia:Escape sequence
• Wikipedia:Escape character
• Wikipedia:C0 and C1 control codes
• Wikipedia:Terminfo

• ASCII Characters for MPE Users (control char info)

Urxvt

• rxvt-unicode
• man urxvt
  • ArchWiki:Rxvt-unicode#Remote Hosts
  • Add terminfo entries on Linux re rxvt-unicode-256colors
  • urxvt (7) faq

Screen

config goes in ~/.screenrc

escape ^Ww
  change escape key to w

• http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html

Tmux

config goes in ~/.tmux.conf

• http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/
• http://www.linuxized.com/2010/05/switching-from-gnu-screen-to-tmux/comment-page-1/#comment-2148

Misc

• ArchWiki: Improve Boot Performance#TTY terminal management
• StackOverflow: Can terminals detect <Shift-Enter> or <Control-Enter>?
• Home and End keys not working
• That 256 Color Thing, P.C. Shyamshankar
• Super User: TTY with 256 colors?
• The Text Pistols
• Wikipedia:Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Unicode

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky