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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
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 07:02:05 1986
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Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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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
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