Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rickl@ic.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem Message-ID: <199710121936.PAA05686@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710121930.VAA16825@sos.freebsd.dk> References: <199710121905.PAA05588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199710121930.VAA16825@sos.freebsd.dk>
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<<On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:30:24 +0200 (MEST), Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> said: >> I'd be happy to send you my /etc/keymap file... And it actually does >> the right thing (sets the high bit rather than prepending escape). > That is not the right thing!! When do you 7bit handicapped yankies > get it that almost evrybody else on this globe use 8bit chars ! I don't care what you use, it's of no relevance to me. (Those other languages are all obsolete anyway... <smirk>) What may or may not happen to be the right thing for you is not particularly relevant to what the right thing is for Emacs, an editor whose original user-interface design was on systems with NINE-bit characters (later extended to twelve). Being restricted to only eight bits severely limits the available single-chord Emacs commands. (Many of the extended Emacs key sequences were single-chord commands on a Knight or Space-Cadet keyboard.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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