more readme info about hotkeys and raw mode

mitranim · Sep 4, 2023 · e2e89c0 · e2e89c0
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 127   ^H (MacOS)  Print help.
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-Other input is forwarded to the subprocess as-is.
+In slightly more technical terms, `gow` switches the terminal into [raw mode](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/termios), reads from stdin, interprets some ASCII control codes, and forwards the other input to the subprocess as-is. In raw mode, pressing one of these hotkeys causes a terminal to write the corresponding byte to stdin, which is then interpreted by `gow`. This can be disabled with `-r=false`.
 
 ## Gotchas