Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!andersa From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: can you recommend an escape sequence? Message-ID: <13@kuling.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:02:05 EST Article-I.D.: kuling.13 Posted: Thu Dec 18 07:02:05 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 06:04:22 EST References: <1420@PUCC.BITNET> <569@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 22 In article <569@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP writes: >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? Emacs. I put rubout-word on ESC-DEL. It's even "standard", isn't it? I nowadays consider an out-of-band BREAK (or anything involving BREAK) as the best choice for a primary back-to-terminal-server command. This may cause trouble if your terminal has a long way to go to the server (for instance via some other host computer or communication devices), but such connections are ugly anyway. As second best, a prefix character should be chosen from those seldom used (touch wood!) ^\, ^], ^^ or ^_. I would explicitly avoid ESC and ^X because of their use in various applications, most notably Emacs. -- Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Phone: +46 18 183170 UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)