Thomas Dickey

Updated on Nov 11, 2023

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Name Thomas Dickey

Thomas E. Dickey is a free software developer of several widely used programs and libraries related to text terminals and terminal emulators.

Work

He is the current developer or maintainer of:

byacc

CDK

dialog

lynx, a text-mode web browser

mawk

ncurses, also used by most programs that display "full-screen" text

terminfo, used by almost all full-screen text mode programs on a Unix system

vile

vttest

xterm, the X11 terminal emulator

He is also the creator of the diffstat histogram tool, which has been incorporated into git and is used to summarize changes to a software project.

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