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Article #3878Re: DEC workstation user feedback
From: John Hascall
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:10
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:10
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przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes: }Here's my two pennies: I wish DEC did away with this righteous sticking to }the idea that ESC _must_ only be the beginning of an escape sequence, }and added an ESC key to their keyboards. It is just silly NOT to have }a hardware escape key, while providing multiple options in software to }configure escape on either F11 or ~ or ... On the other hand, I wish moronic programmers would stop using ESCAPE as a keystroke when it clearly is not. You'ld think someone from "nist" would have some respect for *standards*, wouldn't you? John -- John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.'' Systems Software Engineer Project Vincent Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!john From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) Subject: Re: DEC workstation user feedback Message-ID: <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <2B27754D.9343@news.service.uci.edu> <PRZEMEK.92Dec10160438@rrdstrad.nist.gov> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:10:53 GMT Lines: 19