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In article <1991Apr22.155857.500@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
> The stupidity of the VT200 keyboard design is equalled only by the use of
> Ctrl-S in EMACS for searching.

Failing to figure out exactly what keys users will want isn't stupid;
it's just a mistake. What's stupid is a convention that codes keystrokes
as ambiguous byte streams. When the receiving end has to pay attention
to timing to figure out whether you typed esc-[-A or esc [ A, the
keyboard model is simply flawed, and this is reflected by unreliable
software and user complaints.

In a better world, no valid keystroke would produce a prefix of what
another valid keystroke produces.

---Dan