Thomas Dickey
Thomas E. Dickey is a free software developer of several widely used programs and libraries related to text terminals and terminal emulators.[1]
Work
He is the current developer or maintainer of:
- xterm,[2] the X11 terminal emulator
- terminfo, used by almost all full-screen text mode programs on a Unix system
- GNU ncurses,[3] also used by most programs that display "full-screen" text
- lynx,[4] a text-mode web browser
- vttest[5]
- vile
- dialog
- CDK
- mawk
He is also the creator of the diffstat histogram tool, which has been incorporated into git[6] and is used to summarize changes to a software project.[7]
References
- ↑ Thomas E. Dickey, Homepage, http://invisible-island.net/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
- ↑ XTERM, http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
- ↑ GNU Project, Announcing ncurses 5.9, https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
- ↑ Lynx current distribution, Internet Software Consortium, http://lynx.isc.org/current/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
- ↑ VTTEST, http://invisible-island.net/vttest/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
- ↑ "Git man page"
- ↑ Thomas E. Dickey, DIFFSTAT, http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/diffstat.html (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
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