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From: puglia@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on VMS [flow control]
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.193324.19934@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 19:33:24 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.215804.11443@cbnewse.att.com> danj1@ihlpa.att.com writes:
>Though I liked control-] as a remap choice because it is usually in
>the same spot on most keyboards, I am having second thoughts, as it is
>often the "telnet" program's default enter-command-mode character
>(telnet is one remote login method).  And as of this writing, telnet
>doesn't read a ".telnetrc" file to allow changes at start-up time...
>-- 
>Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708-979-6364

If you are running ksh, you can alias the telnet command with the 
the command line flags that will move the enter-command-mode to another key.
I use a similar trick on VMS with symbols to move the interupt remote process
character from ^C (on my telnet) to a less annoying character.   


Paul Puglia
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Columbia University
puglia@cucevx.civil.columbia.edu