^X (was: an odd question

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 18:42:27 2001

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:34:50PM -0600, Roger Ivie wrote:

> ^[ 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

So what actually happened if you hit CTRL-SHIFT-[ ?
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 18:42:27 BST