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On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, David Leadbeater wrote: >manifestation of the problem. As mentioned in the Kitty issue, shells >should really gain support for input modes. Pretty sure that not. That would totally mess up things like OS/2 console windows and possibly VT100 (hardware) terminals and just look like extra junk spewed before the prompt (also throwing off the shell surrounding the ssh

...ell surrounding the ssh client?s calcula? > tion of the input line length / cursor position). Older hardware or software terminals will ignore any escape sequences they don't recognise, it won't result in any "extra junk" (I'm using Zsh with the configuration I posted on a VT520 without problem). This is the openssh list so I wasn't going to go into the details of it, but roughly the shell would first detect likely support via $TERM or another method (there are reporting sequences for what key modes are enabled / supported which for example is how Vim does this) then e...