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| 1977.1 | No Secret, Really | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Tue May 20 1997 15:05 | 17 |
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There are several ways to generate an <esc> character, but this and
other function keys depend on the host software or the host terminal
for assistance. (For your specific question, see the DECterm menu
keyboard options settings around the behaviour of the tilde key, or
the terminal setup menus, etc.)
Note that <esc> alone is not a valid character in an ANSI environment;
<esc> is always accompanying some number of additional characters.
(There are any number of emacs users around that have discovered this,
and that have implemented various workarounds.)
In various situations, one can use <F11> or <CTRL/[> to generate an
<esc> character.
Also see HUMANE::KEYBOARD_DESIGN and BULOVA::DECWINDOWS, among other
notes conferences.
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| 1977.2 | Yup, EMACS was the application... | STAR::COOK | Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!! | Wed May 21 1997 16:55 | 31 |
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>>>Note that <esc> alone is not a valid character in an ANSI environment;
>>><esc> is always accompanying some number of additional characters.
When you say it that way, it's now starting to make more sense
as to why this particular key is a 'special case'.
>>>(There are any number of emacs users around that have discovered this,
>>>and that have implemented various workarounds.)
Bingo...EMACS was exactly the context in which I wanted the escape
key to work...I was trying to telnet from VMS to a Unix box, and then
use EMACS.
>>>In various situations, one can use <F11> or <CTRL/[> to generate an
>>><esc> character.
Yeah, someone else mentioned trying <F11>, but I had already
tried that, and that didn't work in my 'VMS telneted to Unix then
invoking EMACS' scenario, either.
Maybe this is one of those cases where a mixture of too many
conventions and standards in a mixed-OS-network just makes certain
tasks more difficult than they otta be?!?!
Thanks for the info...I'll take a look in those other confs.
Dave
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| 1977.3 | emacs users know how to solve this one... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Wed May 21 1997 17:31 | 4 |
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It's probably best to start with the emacs conference then, as I know
this has been discussed over there before...
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| 1977.4 | Yes, thanks for the info... | STAR::COOK | Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!! | Thu May 22 1997 17:49 | 6 |
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Yup, thanks Steve. (That's twice in the last few weeks you've
helped...thanks also for the VDE rebuild fixes.)
Dave
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