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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 03:46:05 JST Julia Evans

   Yesterday a program made my terminal’s cursor disappear! I was really surprised because programs so rarely mess up my terminal these days. (fish prevents almost all problems like this)

   the problem was that it printed out "\033[?25l" to make the cursor invisible without printing out a corresponding "\033[?25h” to make it visible again

   like most "my terminal is broken" problems you can fix this by running `reset` but it was VERY disorienting until I realized what had happened

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     Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 03:46:21 JST Andrew Kelley

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     @b0rk one trick as an application programmer to avoid this is to always make sure the hide/show are provided in the same buffer and sent in the same syscall. This way, the process being killed for whatever reason will not leave the terminal in a bad state

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