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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: DEC workstation user feedback
- Message-ID: <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <2B27754D.9343@news.service.uci.edu> <PRZEMEK.92Dec10160438@rrdstrad.nist.gov>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:10:53 GMT
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- przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
- }Here's my two pennies: I wish DEC did away with this righteous sticking to
- }the idea that ESC _must_ only be the beginning of an escape sequence,
- }and added an ESC key to their keyboards. It is just silly NOT to have
- }a hardware escape key, while providing multiple options in software to
- }configure escape on either F11 or ~ or ...
-
- On the other hand, I wish moronic programmers would stop using ESCAPE
- as a keystroke when it clearly is not.
-
- You'ld think someone from "nist" would have some respect for *standards*,
- wouldn't you?
-
- John
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