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It's provided by the terminal (emulator) in "cooked" mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode raw mode doe

• xg15 2y ago
  Ah, that's exactly the answer and makes a lot of sense. Thanks a lot.
• _kst_ 2y ago
  To be clear, it's not the terminal emulator (xterm, mintty, iTerm2, etc.) that does this. It's the tty layer. You can use the stty command to change the settings.
  • samatman 2y ago
    Yes, quite right. I was thinking of the terminal driver and typed emulator for some reason. Good catch.