From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 09:50:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA21542 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21537 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11291; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:47:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603141747.KAA11291@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic? To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:47:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603140737.IAA23174@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 14, 96 08:33:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.