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Re: lynx-dev Re: ^Ve considered harmful
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: ^Ve considered harmful |
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 05:15:59 -0500 (EST) |
> Kim DeVaughn wrote:
>
> Kim>> Personally, I'd *like* to use ESC, since ^V often means "literally
> Kim>> quote the next char", but that would probably cause problems with
> Kim>> various "special" keys (function, arrow, etc) that often use ESC
> Kim>> at the beginning of a CSI (control sequence introducer).
>
> Tom Dickey replied:
>
> Tom> no - it will work (curses waits briefly to disentangle this -- though
> Tom> I am told that slang may not do this properly).
>
> Lynx also works with various OS's native curses, some of which do *not*
> handle this correctly. So if you use ESC for a quote char, be prepared
> for endless niggling bugs on older systems, slowly dwindling as the
> years go by...
hmm (can you give more background - such as SVr3 curses does this, or SVr2?
I've only worked with SVr4, SVr3 and several flavors of BSD - but probably
haven't studied the older ones recently enough to see this problem).
> >Bela<
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