Public bug reported:
The manpage for console, as provided by conserver-client, confusingly
shows the following as the escape sequence for a console session:
^Ec followed by some other character.
This is described in a couple examples in the man page like so:
^Ec\ooo
control-E c
This is a bit confusing, as 'E' can reasonably be interpreted as
'SHIFT+e'
thus ^+SHIFT+e does not work while ^+lowercase e does work.
Especially since the escape sequences also use both Lower and Upper
case... thus:
p playback the last 60 lines of output
P set number of playback lines
means:
CTRL+<lower e> <lower p>
or
CTRL+<lower e> SHIFT+p
But the docs would, logically, display this as ^E P
which reads as
CTRL+<SHIFT+e> SHIFT+p
when actually meaning
CTRL+<lower e> SHIFT+p
By comparison, the default escape sequence for 'screen' is ^a followed
by some other character sequence. The man page there notes this (also
mildly confusingly) as C-a (C for CONTROL and a for lower a). But the
manpage uses capital letters where it means capital letters such as:
C-a Q, meaning CTRL+a followed by SHIFT+q
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: conserver-client 8.2.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52~18.04.1-generic 5.4.60
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Wed Oct 7 15:04:41 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (1700 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210)
SourcePackage: conserver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: conserver (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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console man page info on escape sequences confusingly uses 'E' when it
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