10 Aug
2001
10 Aug
'01
8:34 a.m.
Eric Dittman wrote:
I rarely ever use anything other than ^S/^Q, except on
a VTxxx terminal,
where I will in the odd instance use the "Hold Screen" key. I'll also
often use ^[ for ESC.
^[ doesn't work on Televideo terminals. Some bright soul writing the
firmware seems to have decided that, since the terminal has a perfectly
good ESCape key, no one would _ever_ want to use ^[. When you hit
^[ on a Televideo, you get ^] ([ and ] are on the same key; you should have
had to hit SHIFT to get ^]). This was really annoying to me
when I was moving between keyboards a lot and picked up the habit of
hitting ^[ in vi because I couldn't depend on the location of the ESCape
key (or even it's existence; I used a lot of VT220s and other DEC systems
which used the LK201 keyboard).
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
10 Aug
10 Aug
9:01 a.m.
I rarely ever
use anything other than ^S/^Q, except on a VTxxx terminal,
where I will in the odd instance use the "Hold Screen" key. I'll also
often use ^[ for ESC.
^[ doesn't work on Televideo terminals. Some bright soul writing the
firmware seems to have decided that, since the terminal has a perfectly
good ESCape key, no one would _ever_ want to use ^[. When you hit
^[ on a Televideo, you get ^] ([ and ] are on the same key; you should have
had to hit SHIFT to get ^]). This was really annoying to me
when I was moving between keyboards a lot and picked up the habit of
hitting ^[ in vi because I couldn't depend on the location of the ESCape
key (or even it's existence; I used a lot of VT220s and other DEC systems
which used the LK201 keyboard). from the home keys while the ESC key almost always was
located where
I'd have to take my left hand away.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
School Zones: Man's attempt to thwart natural selection.
11:42 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:34:50PM -0600, Roger Ivie wrote:
^[ doesn't work on Televideo terminals. Some
bright soul writing the
firmware seems to have decided that, since the terminal has a perfectly
good ESCape key, no one would _ever_ want to use ^[. When you hit
^[ on a Televideo, you get ^] ([ and ] are on the same key; you should have
had to hit SHIFT to get ^]). This was really annoying to me
So what actually happened if you hit CTRL-SHIFT-[ ?
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