🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4197@csvax.liv.ac.uk> sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:

>I think the designers of Emacs are the ones who are brain-damaged.
>Leaving aside the fact that their editor is one big joke to those who
>like using PROPER editors, XON-XOFF is now the de facto standard for
>flow control and any terminal (or emulator) not supporting XON-XOFF
>should NOT be used.

I think the Eflamers have lost sight of the fact that Emacs is an outgrowth of
a series of editors originally written at MIT and Stanford, for systems that
had large keyboards with REAL Control- and Meta- keys, that did not require
multiple keystroke sequences to send (the characters were 10-bits wide -- the
high three bits were shift-control-meta).  Emacs was an attempt to provide
the same functionality on brain-damaged i/o devices.  REAL terminals have
direct video connections and WIDE keyboard paths.  All the rest is an
approximation.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)