Re: The correspondence of the command-name and its key-sequence.

[Francis Belliveau]

All,

>> 
>> You shouldn't mix the hexadecimal and decimal representation of the
>> characters.  The ASCII characters 0x01-0x1a (inclusive), i.e. the
>> characters in the range 1-26 (decimal), are the ctrl- variant of the A-Z
>> ASCII characters (0x41-0x5a).
> 
> Why is the ASCII table designed into this strange layout?
> 

My answer is that it is not when viewed in light of a binary design 
implementation.
This, and a number of similar questions asked previously, has prompted me to 
write a more extensive explanation of ASCII.  I will post a short off-topic 
link back here when I put it on-line.

Fran