terpri /ter'pree/ vi.
[from LISP 1.5 (and later,
MacLISP)] To output a newline. Now rare as jargon, though
still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of
`TERminate PRInt line', named for the fact that, on some early OSes
and hardware, no characters would be printed until a complete line
was formed, so this operation terminated the line and emitted the
output.
[from LISP 1.5 (and later,
MacLISP)] To output a newline. Now rare as jargon, though
still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of
`TERminate PRInt line', named for the fact that, on some early OSes
and hardware, no characters would be printed until a complete line
was formed, so this operation terminated the line and emitted the
output.
Related:
- terpri: /ter'pree/ [from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] vi.
To output a {newline}. Now rare as jargon, though... - line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the
wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - newline: /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The
ASCII LF character (0001010),
used under {{UNIX}} as a text line terminator. ... - newline /n[y]oo'li:n/ n.
1. [techspeak, primarily
Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010),
used under Unix as a text line terminator. Though... - spool vi.
[from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral
Operation On-Line',
but is widely thought to be a backronym] To send... - spool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation
On-Line',
but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived... - glitch /glich/
[very common; from German `glitschig' to
slip,
via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1. n. A ... - line starve
[MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer
the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - flush v.
1. [common] To delete something, usually
superfluous,
or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has ...
