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Re: Apt UI design



On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:49:34PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Steve Lamb wrote:
> >     A minor problem here is that screen also uses CNTL-A as a modifier
> > prefix.
> 
> I know. Try producing cntl-A someday when you are running screen across
> a minicom link. IIRC you will need to do "cntl-A cntl-A A". Yuck.

try resuming screens inside of screens inside of screen sometime..  whoa.


> I've just added this piece of text to the design, which solves our
> problems I think:
> 
>    Since not all terminals have an Alt key there are two alternatives: when
>    using X we will use Meta1 and for other systems we use escape as a prefix.

Escape as a prefix is the standard, that's what Alt-key SENDS!

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