gitkeys(1)

💖 gitkeys — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is gitkeys(1), from the General Commands Manual (section 1, the iconic one). pull up a chair, we're gonna talk about it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gitkeys — GNU Interactive Tools — Display key sequence utility 👑

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

lowkey the whole vibe is just:

gitkeys

that's it. that's the entire invocation. no flags, no args, no drama. she takes nothing and she gives you everything 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, here's the tea: gitkeys is a program that displays the key sequence sent by the pressed key. you press a key, she tells you what sequence came out. iconic behaviour honestly 🫶

and here's the part that makes her useful: that key sequence she shows you is the key sequence received by GNUIT tools. so when you're setting up your .gitrc.TERM configuration files and you're sitting there like "what even IS this key", gitkeys is your girl. she's the vibe check for your terminal keys. no cap 🔥

ngl if you've ever been deep in .gitrc.TERM land wondering which escape sequence your terminal is actually sending, this is literally the tool for that. obsessed.

💀 BUGS 💀

found something cursed? please send bug reports to:

• Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>

(not me being dramatic, that's literally what the page says 🙈)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole GNUIT friend group, go say hi:

• gitfm(1)
• gitps(1)
• gitview(1)
• gitmount(1)
• gitaction(1)
• gitrgrep(1)
• gitunpack(1)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

these legends made her:

• Tudor Hulubei <tudor@cs.unh.edu>
• Andrei Pitis <pink@pub.ro>
• Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> (Current maintainer) ✨

aaaand that's the page!! she lives in the General Commands Manual as gitkeys(1), and she's been serving key sequences since forever. stan. mwah, go configure your .gitrc.TERM bestie 💜🦋✨