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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
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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

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