Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:46:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rickl@ic.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem Message-ID: <19971013084616.46236@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710122044.NAA20068@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 08:44:44PM %2B0000 References: <199710121746.TAA16460@sos.freebsd.dk> <199710122044.NAA20068@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 08:44:44PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>> He's the one that wanted the left ALT key to behave like META, ie it >>>> prepends an ESC to the key pressed (for EMACS fanatics).... >>> >>> It does? I thought it just set the 8th bit. :) >> >> Nope, that would make it useless in the real world, remember you >> live in a 7bit disabled world, the rest of us don't :) > > The VT220 manual shows 7 bit National Replacement Character Sets for > Western European countries, including Germany. 8-) 8-). So what? Nobody uses them, because they're hopelessly restrictive. > I remember running Emacs in LISP on TOPS-10. And not again since? Greg
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