a color coded table of the ASCII control codes

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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 05:14:00 JST Julia Evans

   spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix

   there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled at the application for enter (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)

   (not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)