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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: control characters in terminal emulation progs
Keywords: Red Ryder 10.3, VersaTerm 4.0
Message-ID: <385@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:58:57 GMT
References: <14666@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <14666@ut-emx.UUCP> jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau) discovers
that his terminal emulator doesn't understand ctrl-@.

There really isn't a standard for keyboard->control character processing.
You might try ctrl-space (this works on my emulator because I wrote
it myself).  One problem is that ctrl-@ and/or ctrl-space are probably
sending the <NUL> (000) character, which is often eaten by intervening
hardware/softare.

If you use Emacs, you might find binding set-mark to a function key
offers a longterm solution.

Martin Minow
minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com