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

1. Thomas E. Dickey, Homepage, http://invisible-island.net/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
2. XTERM, http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
3. GNU Project, Announcing ncurses 5.9, https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
4. Lynx current distribution, Internet Software Consortium, http://lynx.isc.org/current/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
5. VTTEST, http://invisible-island.net/vttest/ (visited Dec. 26, 2012)
6. "Git man page"
7. Thomas E. Dickey, DIFFSTAT, http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/diffstat.html (visited Dec. 26, 2012)