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Subject: Re: when using termcap, get it right!
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 20:03:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 20:03:47 1987
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In article <5988@brl-smoke.arpa>, Doug Gwyn <gwyn@brl-smoke.arpa> writes:

>                                       ...  If in spite of this, your
>copy of EMACS nonetheless persists in receiving DC3/DC1 and treating them
>as user command keystrokes, then your EMACS is in need of repair.  The
>version I often use does not have this problem.  (You should also get out
>of the habit of using any key bindings containing ^S or ^Q.  That was a
>really stupid set of defaults in the first place.)

Display editors were using ^S and ^Q before terminals were.  Using ^S
and ^Q for terminal flow control without providing a means of
keyboard-to-application transparancy was the stupid decision.
Too bad, it would have been easy to do it right.

The sad truth is that it's easier to fix the software than to fix or
get rid of all of the brain-damaged terminals, terminal concentrators,
etc.

Keith Moore				Internet:  moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
University of Tenn CS Dept		CSnet:  moore@tennessee
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