TERMS(5)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for terms — aka TERMS(5) if we're being all formal and filing it under File Formats Manual. it's literally the database of blessed terminals for xtermset. no cap. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The terms database is a file which tells xtermset which terminals are controllable. it's giving gatekeeper but for terminal vibes.

terms is usually located in /usr/share/xtermset and it is an ASCII file. A blessed terminal is described in one line. one line, that's it, she's simple like that. 🎀

There are several modifiers which affect the way how xtermset interprets the TERM variable. lowkey iconic behavior.

• ^<term-name> — tells xtermset that $TERM should begin with <term-name>
• <term-name>$ — tells xtermset that $TERM should begin with <term-name>
• <term-name> — tells xtermset that $TERM must contain <term-name>

You can combine the ^ and the $ options to create an exact match for $TERM. slay, that's the power combo. 💅

and that's the whole vibe, bestie. this page came from the File Formats Manual, dated Dec 2000, and it's TERMS(5) — periodt. 🫶✨