Why tmux Needs Its Own Terminal Emulator
ncurses assumes one application owns one terminal. A multiplexer owns N screens and has to render them into one terminal without the terminal knowing.
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tmux Works Around Terminal Bugs: Believe Nothing, Probe Everything
tmux treats terminal capabilities as unverified claims. It layers terminfo, user overrides, named features, runtime probing and a hard-coded table of per-terminal quirks — and…