> This is why, on the web, text input and keypresses are separate events. Terminals conflate these two, causing problems. Yeah, so please don’t create terminal

> This is why, on the web, text input and keypresses are separate events. Terminals conflate these two, causing problems. Yeah, so please don’t create terminal TUIs please. Very disturbing to use TUIs that don’t work with CJK languages at all. Please, please create GUIs instead of TUIs. (I’m not blaming programs reading from stdin and printing data to stdout, but the ones based on ncurse and fill the terminal screen.) Unfortunately the status quo on text editing didn’t improve since the last time this came up on HN. Unfortunately everything I said the last time[0] still applies… [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384596