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Article #179Re: Position of the ESC key (was Re: Standard keyboard)
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 01:29
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 01:29
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In article <1991Feb21.015322.14213@contact.uucp> egr@contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta) writes: >Well, I got sick of having ESC next to Left Shift or on F12 on various >different keyboards, and finally got into the habit of typing Control-[ >(control open square bracket), which is in fact the ASCII code for ESC. I've used two classes of terminals where Control-[ did not generate 0x1B. On one, there was a BACKTAB key where ESC should have been. The real ESC key was hidden so cleverly I couldn't find it for a while); so I gave up and tried Control-[. It didn't work--I got a backtab, because of the internal remapping that was being done in the firmware. On the other, left bracket and right bracket were on the same key, and using the Control key (with or without shift) would generate Control-], 0x1D. The only known way to generate 0x1B on such a keyboard is with the ESC key. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!rex!samsung!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!spdcc!dirtydog!karl From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Subject: Re: Position of the ESC key (was Re: Standard keyboard) Summary: It's not that simple Message-ID: <1991Feb28.012958.17519@ima.isc.com> Date: 28 Feb 91 01:29:58 GMT References: <742@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <87723@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jan28.195647.21789@craycos.com> <1991Feb21.015322.14213@contact.uucp> Sender: news@ima.isc.com (NEWS ADMIN) Reply-To: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 17