Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!husc6!necntc!encore!linus!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: can you recommend an escape sequence? Message-ID: <569@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 20:32:29 EST Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.569 Posted: Fri Dec 12 20:32:29 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 01:48:44 EST References: <1420@PUCC.BITNET> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 25 In article <1420@PUCC.BITNET>, IRWIN@PUCC.BITNET (Irwin Tillman) writes: > At Princeton we are [...] in search of a good escape sequence which > we can reserve for the use of the internet. Users currently type > ESCAPE DELETE to get the network, but this sequence is used by some > software. We are considering Control-X Control-A, [...] Does anyone > have a favorite piece of software or hardware that already makes use > of the sequence Control-X Control-A? Emacs. I put list-buffers on ^X^A. ESC-DEL sounds like a reasonable choice to me. I might even have chosen it if I were writing the code. What software is this that picked ESC-DEL? I guess it just goes to show that there's *nothing* that nobody uses. You can get unlikely, of course, but that's all you can do. der Mouse USA: {ihnp4,decvax,akgua,utzoo,etc}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse Europe: mcvax!decvax!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse ARPAnet: think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse@harvard.harvard.edu [USA NSA food: terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, CIA, secret, decode]