I see "Escape" used (or at least the "esc" key on my keyboard) in a lot of 
applications still as a kind of "get me out of here" key.  And it's used a lot 
by emacs as the meta key, IIRC.

On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Michael S. Kaplan wrote:

> Not for any terribly interesting reason, but mainly for all kinds of
> ancient features like I mention here:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2008/11/04/9037027.aspx
> 
> and here:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/05/28/2954171.aspx
> 
> Michael
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> 001B, 001D, 001C are present in some keyboard layouts. What are these
>> characters used for?
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 

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