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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:40:45 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us> cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, James Lockie <bjlockie@...kie.ca>, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: escape key] On Dec 16 2006 19:51, Stephen Clark wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> It's something between a misdesign and a misconfiguration of the ESC key. >> >> In other words, many unices make ESC generate ^[, the general >> terminal escape character that is _also_ generated by keys like "up", >> ^[[A. >> > > do man ascii - ESC is 0x1b. > Thats what the esc key should generate - it sometimes echoed as ^[ because the > [ = 0x5b Ok I hoped people would be smart enough to figure, but let me rephrase in two ways: Many unices generate "\x1b" (^[) for ESC, which is also generated by keys like "up", which generates "\x1b[A" (^[[A) >> MS-DOS, or rather QBASIC's, Turbo BASIC's and other implementation of >> keys, does not have this "bug": here ESC generates "\x1B" and "up" >> generates "\x00H" IIRC. There is no key defined to generate "\x00". >> => All fits nicely. And QB generates "\x1b" (^[) while "up" generates "\x00H" (^@H). Hope this makes things more clear - I interchangably used the ^ and the \ notation. Sorry if that confused anyone. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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