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From: ak104@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: ESC key on VT200 and VT300 terminals.
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Date: 17 Apr 91 22:48:08 GMT
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  Does anyone know why DEC on VT200 and 300 terminals
mapped the ESC key to CTRL-3 and CTRL-3 to the ESC key?
  I use the EMACS editor, which is a very popular editor
for mainframe computers, and it requires the use of the
ESC key. It's rather annoying to have to hit CTRL-3 for 
the ESC key, particularly when there's no logical reason
why it should be that way.
  I could map the ESC key back to itself but I use other
terminals such as vt100 and AMIGAS, PC'S, and MACINTOSHES
and it would be a major pain to have to map or de-map
the key depending on what term I'm using everytime I
log on.
  What's the deal here?



					Bob Clark
					SUNY at Albany