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A complete walkthrough setting up a terminal-based git interface — staging, committing, browsing history, and resolving conflicts visually, without leaving the keyboard or the terminal.
A complete walkthrough installing and configuring a full-screen terminal system monitor — real-time CPU, memory, and process information, entirely keyboard-driven, without leaving the terminal.
A complete walkthrough setting up a terminal-based file manager — navigating, previewing, and manipulating files entirely with the keyboard, without ever leaving the terminal.
Full-screen terminal applications like htop and vim don't just print text — they take over the entire screen, redraw parts of it selectively, and read your keystrokes one at a time. Here's the layer that makes that possible.