Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!mikep From: mikep@ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs Message-ID: <12510@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 1 Aug 88 19:11:39 GMT References: <16697@brl-adm.ARPA> <517@uva.UUCP> <661@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 16 In article ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >I should point out children that Control-? does not exist and is >a figment of the BSD control character printing routine. > >-Ron Sorry, Ron. This doesn't come from BSD, although it's popularized there. I've seen references to ^? being translated to DELETE dated back in October 1977 in RFC #734 (SUPDUP Display Protocol which ran on the ITS, TOPS-20 and Stanford's SAIL operating system at a machine at (each) MIT, Stanford, and SRI International). -MikeP -- Michael A. Petonic mikep@ism780c.isc.com ``When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby?''