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The Secret Rules of the Terminal

And the way integers and floats are represented isn’t going to change (floating point was standardized in 1985

my arrow keys aren’t working because this is one of those annoying REPLs that doesn’t support arrow keys

NULL acts in counterintuitive ways

The Secret Rules of the Terminal Version:Print + PDF ”) and immediately fix itThe 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