Editing Terminal (section)

== Trivia ==

* "Terminal" is a word interchangeable with console, shell, and command prompt. It may also refer to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal computer terminals]. Early computer terminals used command line interfaces as an easier, albeit initially slower way to interact with data than through punch cards.
* A '''.dat''' file is a generic data file that stores information specific to the application it refers to.[https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-dat-file-2620550] .dat files are usually text files, though they may also be used for videos, sound, images, and anything else. The characters being stored as .dat files suggests that, in-universe, the characters are in part or whole literal data structures that can be manipulated, such as granting them administrator permissions, and in turn given the ability to manipulate the game and therefore the world itself.
* AntiCheat.dll may be referencing ''EasyAntiCheat'', a program commonly used in various online multiplayer video games to prevent cheats or hacks from being used that would give players an unfair advantage. This is appropriate considering that not only is the 7 key traditionally used to open the chart editor/debug menu in FNF games, but [[Expunged]] is also heavily fixated on the idea of cheating or fairness.
* Despite referencing the file path ''bin/plugins/AntiCheat.dll'', no such directory exists in the mod's folder or source code. There is a ''plugins'' folder in the root mod folder in distributions, but no file titled "AntiCheat.dll".
** Similarly, there are no character .dat files in game distributions or source code. These may either simply be made up, or imply that ''in-universe'', Vs. Dave and Bambi has a different folder structure and contents than the actual game itself.
* The glitching sound that plays after entering ''admin grant expunged.dat'' is actually two separate sound files. The first and longer, glitchier one is titled '''expungedGrantedAccess.ogg''', and the second, deeper rumbling sound is '''iTrollYou.ogg'''.
* The background music that plays in the terminal screen is titled '''TheAmbience.ogg'''.[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/blob/main/assets/shared/music/TheAmbience.ogg] There are several noteworthy things about this file.
** TheAmbience is a slowed-down version of the beginning of Recursed. It is unknown whether this was selected arbitrarily or for a specific meaning.
** This file has additional metadata that the rest of the game's music and sound files lack. Its artist name is "''Universe #55553''", its track title "''Ambience''", its album title "''Secrets Unlocking''", its track number "''55553''", its DATE "''20XX''", and its comments "''this universe is... interesting. to say the least''". This is one of the few references to a date in the timeline of the Vs. Dave universe. [[File:Secret mod leak.png|thumb|right|200px|secret mod leak.png]]
* Two unused terminal keypress sounds are present in the source code. The one that is actually used is titled '''terminal_space.ogg''', while the others are '''terminal_key.ogg'''[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/main/assets/preload/sounds/terminal_key.ogg] and '''terminal_bckspc.ogg'''[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/blob/main/assets/preload/sounds/terminal_bkspc.ogg], which are pitched-down versions of the space sound. Commit history shows that all three files were intended to be used respectively for general keypresses, for the spacebar, and backspace[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/commit/a7e5ca79b4d9c701fd68ef34c1c696ea2ac7ca09], but all were removed from TerminalState.hx in the 3.0a release.[https://github.com/BemboLikePizza/VsDave/commit/1303bb3e337f9c10ae661ccf3d04f7aecd39a0ba] terminal_space was later re-added in 3.0b.[https://github.com/FuseIsHere813/VsDave-3.0/blob/8dd98b48f95d123b8a4723e0149f09eb16c5c8c3/source/TerminalState.hx#L94]
* ''secret mod leak'' and ''welcometobaldis'' share the same help text. Given the changes made to their functions in the current source code, this suggests that ''secret mod leak'' is intended to replace ''welcometobaldis''.
** Despite ''secret mod leak'' not being present in any release of the game, its help text is in every iteration of the game as an unused asset.
* The terminal's commands are stored in the class '''TerminalCommand'''. Humorously, the default ''commandHelp'' value for objects in this class is "if you see this you are very homosexual and dumb."
* The return text for ''admin grant moldy.dat'' is stored as an error message, while the error message ''term_unknown'' does not use the error namespace.
* ''admin'' is the only command with error handling for whether it is entered with an invalid ''number'' of arguments. All other commands entered with additional arguments do not affect the output. For ''vault'', these arguments can even be in any order; for ''open'', it must occur after a valid first argument.
* ''secret mod leak'' shares a title with the image asset '''secret mod leak.png''', a photo of Baldi's sprite clipping through the roof of a house.
* The first input the player can make upon opening the terminal does not have spacing between the ">" and the text; in any subsequent entry, it does.
* Although highly likely to simply be coincidence, the blacked-out regions of text on the top of artifact4.png resemble the letters "IV" - the roman numerals for 4.
* The cypher only has glyphs for uppercase letters, not lowercase letters. This may simply be an arbitrary choice of glyph storage rather than implying that the cypher is always in capitalized text.