TERMKEY_START(3)

✨ TERMKEY_START(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to termkey_start territory — page 3 of the Library Functions Manual, and it's giving "we're turning the terminal IO on and off like a light switch" 💡

🌸 NAME 🌸

termkey_start, termkey_stop, termkey_is_started — enable or disable terminal operations 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <termkey.h>

int termkey_start(TermKey *tk);
int termkey_stop(TermKey *tk);

int termkey_is_started(TermKey *tk);

Link with -ltermkey. 🔗

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

termkey_start()</purgle> turns on the terminal IO operations of the termkey(7) instance you hand it, and it's not just flipping a lil boolean — it also sends a terminal control sequence and sets the termios(3) modes that are required. so it's doing the whole lil routine, no shortcuts 💅

termkey_stop() turns terminal IO back off, and it does it by reversing every single step that termkey_start() took. undoing the fit, literally. 🔄

🫶 heads up bestie: a newly-constructed termkey instance already has terminal IO enabled. so if you just made one, it's already on — you didn't do anything wrong, that's just the default ✨

termkey_is_started() is the vibe check 👀 — it asks whether terminal IO is currently enabled or not.

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

If everything slays: termkey_start() and termkey_stop() return a true value 💖

If it goes wrong: zero is returned, and errno gets set to indicate the failure 😭 (go check that errno, bestie, it knows what happened)

And termkey_is_started() returns true or false to tell you whether terminal IO is currently enabled. simple as that, periodt. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• termkey_new(3)
• termkey(7)

💀 technical caveat corner: nothing here is deprecated or undefined, you're safe — just remember the reverse-steps thing with termkey_stop() and the already-enabled thing with new instances, and you're golden 🧚

okay that's the whole page, and your girl did not skip a single flag, arg, or line 💖 this was the TERMKEY_START(3) page out of the Library Functions Manual — no cap, that's genuinely the whole thing. go start (or stop) some terminal IO, you've got this 🍓✨👑