^X (was: an odd question

From: Roger Ivie <IVIE_at_cc.usu.edu>
Date: Fri Aug 10 15:34:50 2001

Eric Dittman wrote:
> I rarely ever use anything other than ^S/^Q, except on a VTxxx terminal,
> where I will in the odd instance use the "Hold Screen" key. I'll also
> often use ^[ for ESC.

^[ doesn't work on Televideo terminals. Some bright soul writing the
firmware seems to have decided that, since the terminal has a perfectly
good ESCape key, no one would _ever_ want to use ^[. When you hit
^[ on a Televideo, you get ^] ([ and ] are on the same key; you should have
had to hit SHIFT to get ^]). This was really annoying to me
when I was moving between keyboards a lot and picked up the habit of
hitting ^[ in vi because I couldn't depend on the location of the ESCape
key (or even it's existence; I used a lot of VT220s and other DEC systems
which used the LK201 keyboard).

Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 15:34:50 BST