Is Ctrl+D really like Enter? — mina86.com
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  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
    81·
    2 days ago

    Found it in the classic The UNIX Programming Environment from 1984:

    But then, this is for return, which technically isn’t “enter”, but nowadays they are sort of interpreted the same by programs?

    • mina86@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, it’s a bit philosophical.

      • In graphical applications, Ctrl+M, Ctrl+J and Return/Enter are all different things.
      • In a terminal in raw mode, Ctrl+M and Return/Enter are the same thing but Ctrl+J is something different. You can for example run bind -x '"\C-j":"echo a"' in bash and Ctrl+J will do something different.
      • In a terminal in canonical mode, they are all the same thing. There probably are some stty options which can change that though.