Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:47:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? Message-ID: <199603141747.KAA11291@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603140737.IAA23174@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 14, 96 08:33:33 am
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> I personally hate the ESC prefix. I think it was Terry who pointed > out how they could be misinterpreted, and they're always a pain, > slowing down your typing something awful. I'm a regular Emacs user, > but in character mode I frequently prefer vi simply because of this > factor. > > I think that the ESC prefix is the obvious solution for serial > terminals, though: it's "intuitive" (i.e. well-known), and it's > flexible enough to handle all the problems we've been talking about. > I'll also allow sign bit set to mean the same thing. Hard code ANSI escape sequences for questionable keys. For questionable terminals, the Wyse/Televide/etc. don't have a colliding space for the interesting keys, so as long as you avoid function keys, you're fine. Even then, it's not that hard to distinguish ESC @ 1 from an ANSI sequence. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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