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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
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Subject: Re: Behaviour of setjmp/longjmp and registers
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Date: 6 Feb 89 21:05:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL's message of 5 Feb 89 05:04:49 GMT


In article <9597@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>
>   What probably is contributing to the confusion is that you bought
>   keyboards that have an ESC key the user can press that violates the
>   X3.64 standard.  Remove the key or tell your users how to recover
>   from it (treating a second consecutive ESC specially is one way).


*gack*.

you cant be serious.

do you ever use vi or emacs?  both of them need to use a single ESC
key to work.  if the X3.64 standard says you can use the escape key,
then the X3.64 standard isnt going to be used much.  



-wayne