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From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com>
To: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote:

> 	Hmmm, so is ^O the only discard character? 

No, you use the stty program to set the discard character (or any other 
special control characters for that matter).  For instance, 

$ stty discard ^a

sets the discard character to Control-A,

$ stty discard ^o

sets it to Control-O,

$ stty discard 7

sets it to '7', and

$ stty discard undef

undefines it (after which there is no discard key).  To see what other
control characters you can set, do 'stty -a' and look under the "cchars:"
section. 

> Also, do you mean that
> you can just hit ^O and then another key and ^O will work correctly?

Well, you hit the discard key and it works correctly. :)  If you do the 
'stty discard undef', there is no discard key.

> 	Hmmm, what is discard anyways?

I think at this point you'll just have to play with it to get a feel for 
it. :)  I can also suggest the stty(1) and termios(4) man pages for terse 
but fairly complete explanations of what is going on.

Marc.

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