On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 07:40, Marty Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that the ASCII codes were not really meant to > be something that the user typed in, they were *control codes* for > controlling printing and display. But some of them were used by users > sometimes, and most users knew things like backspace, XON, XOFF, EOF, etc. > But I think they were just chosen by what was available, with no regard for > mnemonics, or anything. Ctrl-G was bell, Ctrl-M was carriage return, Ctrl-J > was linefeed; none of these are related to anything. >
It does seem to be a happy coincidence that the the linefeed character just happened to be on the strongest finger. Not impossible, but rather convenient. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
