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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: ESC key on VT200 and VT300 terminals.
Message-ID: <15892@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:17:40 GMT
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In article <DAVIS.91Apr17212532@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis) writes:
>Just use ^[ for escape-- it always works on any terminal by definition.

While that probably works on most ASCII terminals, it is not that way
"by definition", but rather a side effect of the implementation of the
control-key function on such terminals.