Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why shouldn't ^J (linefeed) be used as a command in an application?
Keywords: line discipline, control characters, UNIX conventions
Message-ID: <713@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 20:14:36 GMT
References: <4404@sfsup.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>What are the historical or cultural reasons that ^J is not used in UNIX
>tools?

There *are* UNIX cbreak-mode or raw-mode applications that use ^J and ^M
for different purposes; some versions of EMACS do (but then again they
permit you to do fairly arbitrary key bindings).  The main problem is if
you have a terminal that can't send them both, but that's a different
matter.