From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 6:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C6F37BB0B for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24388 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13212 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZE05600.24W; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:29:30 -0400 Message-ID: <399A97D1.38F15D4D@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:32:01 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editors question #2 References: <20000126095411.B43103@freebie.lemis.com> <20000815142645.A37927@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <399947E2.92B91A48@mitre.org> <20000816103430.O3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > and sometimes don't have an escape key (which makes vi a barrel of > > fun to use). > > I've never seen a Sun or DEC keyboard without an ESC key. We've got some old Alphas down in the lab. The keyboard actually has "esc" written on it, but it is in between the '~' and '`'; IE it is a third function on the same key. AFAIK nobody ever figured out how to make that key generate and escape without totally remapping it (and losing either '`' or '~'). This keyboard also has a mostly useless (and large) "go" key and a "help" key that IIRC was just wired to F1. The backslash on this keyboard was where you would expect the left half of the "enter" key to be. One of the first things most people did with their accounts was to remap F12 to escape (using pico), which is a suboptimal solution at best. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message