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Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors



On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my editor to go
> to the top of the file, and all of a sudden, the escape comes detached
> from the [D, and I suddenly end up altering my file, inserting invalid
> data, perhaps without even realizing it.
> 
> IMHO, the sooner this dead escape standard is dropped in favour of the
> better standard (IIRC: set the high bit on control characters), the

are you sure this would be better? you need to type 8-bit characters too...

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