On 14/07/09 05:21, Matt Wozniski wrote: [...] > Yes, but remapping them *would* affect those keys. If, for example, > your terminal sent ^H for<BS> then pressing<BS> would suddenly move > one window left - which I suppose is as sane as moving one character > left, it's default behavior - but it does still change things. Not > sure if there's any setup where pressing a<Return> key (as distinct > from<Enter>) on the keyboard actually sends a ^J but I bet there's > one out there somewhere. > > ~Matt
Some papertape terminals had separate "return" and "linefeed" keys. I remember than in 1968 or so, when General Electric did (in universities and fairs) demos of its "time-sharing" system in BASIC (which operated with teletypewriters equipped with forward-only paper display, keyboard, and papertape reader-punch), when you pre-punched a source tape it was better to separate lines by <Return> <Linefeed> <Rubout> <Rubout> <Rubout> rather than just <Return> (which would work all right, but give you, when sending, an ugly listing with maybe two or three characters printed wrong at the start of each line). However I haven't seen any such papertape teletypewriter in a long, long time. Maybe there are still some in operation on Unix machines (I wouldn't bet either way) but it's certainly not the kind of terminal where Vim would be "at home". Maybe it could be used in "ex mode", but I suppose I'd prefer a "simpler" editor on that kind of terminals, maybe a line-editor like the EDLIN I used (rarely) in my MS-DOS days. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 73. You give your dog used motherboards instead of bones --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
