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Article #74333Re: hayes lawsuit
From: Steven K. Bower
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 20:16
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 20:16
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In <1991May14.132225.24767@wsrcc.com> wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes: >I have heard of editors using timing information to differentiate >between "<esc>" typed by the user and "<esc>[A" typed via a function >key. A quickly typed burst registers as a function key hit, a slow >sequence of the same keys registers as a user typed string. This is >clearly a use of out-of-band signalling via timing information. Didn't TECO emacs do that? I think I remember being able to use <esc>[ to do a backward-paragraph, but still having the arrow keys (using <esc>[A) work as expected. This was on a DEC-20 several years ago. Of course, my memory may be just a bit fuzzy... Steve. -- Steve Bower skb@swlvx2.msd.ray.com The ideas presented herein aren't necessarily the ideas presented herein.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6565de0f36d6744c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-16 03:23:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!raybed2!skb From: skb@raybed2.msd.ray.com (Steven K. Bower) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit Message-ID: <2283@raybed2.msd.ray.com> Date: 15 May 91 20:16:28 GMT References: <1991May13.044909.3617@netdev.comsys.com> <TMB.91May13041549@volterra.ai.mit.edu> <1991May14.132225.24767@wsrcc.com> Reply-To: skb@swlvx2.msd.ray.com Organization: Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, Mass. Lines: 17