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by shakna 1 day ago
Okay. I described a manpage as the place you should go first, because it has most things in the one place.

You have said that is unacceptable, because it doesn't show absolutely everything ever made. And listed places, which don't show absolutely everything ever made.

Feel like actually offering a source you would feel meets the need?

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My point is-the purpose of console_codes is to document what control codes are supported by the Linux VT console - it was never intended as a general purpose reference to control codes in general.

Yes, it does briefly mention a few codes it doesn’t support-but that’s in the spirit of man pages having a “limitations” section (“here’s an incomplete list of commonly requested functionality we haven’t implemented”)-it is not intended as primary documentation for control codes implemented by other software.