and the solution to this problem is still > to suspend the program and hope they could blind-type out a "reset". I find myself doing it a few times in a month

and the solution to this problem is still > to suspend the program and hope they could blind-type out a "reset". I find myself doing it a few times in a month, sometimes because of accidentally catting binary garbage, other time it was became a ncurses program crashed without resetting the terminal back to the normal mode. Next time I'll remember to call it "getting flashed". Unfortuately, ESR hasn't curated the Jargon File since 2002, and this word was not included. AFAIK, Bob Mottram maintains his own fork of Jargon File, https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile. I should request him to add the definition into the file.