A big fat YES from me. I have been looking into TUIs lately, and the state of terminal handling is ridiculously bogged down by years of cruft that, honestly, I

A big fat YES from me. I have been looking into TUIs lately, and the state of terminal handling is ridiculously bogged down by years of cruft that, honestly, I don't give a shit about anymore. To put it succinctly: I want Alt-Home and Ctrl-Click to work on a TUI. Period. If I had superpowers, I would layer the system as a very low-level library that recognizes keyboard / mouse / tablet / microphone input hardware events and encodes them somehow (so Alt is a separate key, pressing multiple keys is handled, clicking + moving the mouse is handled, etc); then a protocol that can give you this event stream, either from a local or remote source; then a layer that maps this into higher-level events (so Alt and Home pressed together is interpreted as Alt-Home). The idea would be to have the ability to detect, even over a serial connection, any of these input events, without resorting to escape codes. I don't even know if this all makes sense; I just hate the loops you have to go through today to even try to make sense of key combinations. /rant