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From: tech@auvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: when using termcap, get it right!
Message-ID: <192@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 12:39:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: auvax.192
Posted: Wed Jun 17 12:39:48 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 05:08:40 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <21251@sun.uucp>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Keywords: termcap, curses
Xref: utgpu comp.sources.d:803 comp.emacs:1035
Summary: twit

In article <21251@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> > I have to conclude that Function Key editors were not invented by typists.
> 
> I have to conclude that this is a flame based on personal anecdotal
> evidence.  There are benefits to function keys (for one thing, you

Some little nits can't tell a flame from a reasonably restrained comment.
I said that this was my opinion and did not imply that control keys are
better but suggested that two or three people out of 100,000 might prefer
them.

I will explain flames so that you can use the term correctly in the future.

THIS IS A FLAME.  YOU ******* IDIOT!!!


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