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Article #3707Re: While we're blaming the terminal...
From: mlandau
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1986 16:18
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1986 16:18
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In comp.emacs (article <533@omssw2.UUCP>), dps@omssw2.UUCP (Dave Schneider) writes:
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>I would like to add a complaint about terminal manufacturers who set up the
>arrow keys to send single character control codes.
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>Does anyone know why Televideo and Wyse made this contribution to brain-
>damage?
Well, one can argue (quite successfully) that sending single-character
codes for arrow and function keys makes it a lot easier to write programs
to use those keys. Having to read multiple characters (and, in some
Emacs'es, set up multiple keymaps) to deal with arrow keys that send
things like Esc-[-A is pretty much a crock. It's just a crock that has
been around for a long time, thanks to things like the VT100. When
does it become time to say "We don't CARE if that's how it's been done
for the past 10 years. It's time to do something BETTER!"?
--
Matt Landau BBN Laboratories, Inc.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!Diamond!mlandau From: mlandau@Diamond.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: While we're blaming the terminal... Message-ID: <2789@slate.Diamond.BBN.COM> Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 11:18:07 EST Article-I.D.: slate.2789 Posted: Wed Dec 10 11:18:07 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 02:10:36 EST References: <8612020023.AA05566@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <533@omssw2.UUCP> Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) Organization: BBN Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 20