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doc: adjust TTY wording & add inter-doc links
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PR-URL: nodejs#17702
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
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Fishrock123 committed Dec 18, 2017
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const tty = require('tty');
```

When Node.js detects that it is being run inside a text terminal ("TTY")
context, the `process.stdin` will, by default, be initialized as an instance of
`tty.ReadStream` and both `process.stdout` and `process.stderr` will, by
When Node.js detects that it is being run with a text terminal ("TTY")
attached, [`process.stdin`][] will, by default, be initialized as an instance of
`tty.ReadStream` and both [`process.stdout`][] and [`process.stderr`][] will, by
default be instances of `tty.WriteStream`. The preferred method of determining
whether Node.js is being run within a TTY context is to check that the value of
the `process.stdout.isTTY` property is `true`:
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```

In most cases, there should be little to no reason for an application to
create instances of the `tty.ReadStream` and `tty.WriteStream` classes.
manually create instances of the `tty.ReadStream` and `tty.WriteStream`
classes.

## Class: tty.ReadStream
<!-- YAML
added: v0.5.8
-->

The `tty.ReadStream` class is a subclass of `net.Socket` that represents the
readable side of a TTY. In normal circumstances `process.stdin` will be the
The `tty.ReadStream` class is a subclass of [`net.Socket`][] that represents the
readable side of a TTY. In normal circumstances [`process.stdin`][] will be the
only `tty.ReadStream` instance in a Node.js process and there should be no
reason to create additional instances.

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added: v0.5.8
-->

A `boolean` that is always `true`.
A `boolean` that is always `true` for `tty.ReadStream` instances.

### readStream.setRawMode(mode)
<!-- YAML
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-->

The `tty.WriteStream` class is a subclass of `net.Socket` that represents the
writable side of a TTY. In normal circumstances, `process.stdout` and
`process.stderr` will be the only `tty.WriteStream` instances created for a
writable side of a TTY. In normal circumstances, [`process.stdout`][] and
[`process.stderr`][] will be the only `tty.WriteStream` instances created for a
Node.js process and there should be no reason to create additional instances.

### Event: 'resize'
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The `tty.isatty()` method returns `true` if the given `fd` is associated with
a TTY and `false` if it is not, including whenever `fd` is not a non-negative
integer.

[`net.Socket`]: net.html#net_class_net_socket
[`process.stdin`]: process.html#process_process_stdin
[`process.stdout`]: process.html#process_process_stdout
[`process.stderr`]: process.html#process_process_stderr

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