Jim Gettys wrote: > Traditionally, escape has been used by many keyboard based applications > (e.g. vi, emacs), but its use is much more rare in recent applications. > > We are giving thought to whether we really need an escape key: we have > need for a number of keys not typically found on current keyboards. > > Here's the question: can anyone identify any application which breaks if > escape is generated by ^] rather than pressing the key labeled "esc" on > their keyboard?
vi. The hand-generated escape did not work when I tried a few minutes ago. This may be related to my nodeadkeys keyboard layout. Same both for text console and in X. Regards, Carl-Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
