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

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <garabik@atlas03.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> writes:

    Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May
    Radovan> 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

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

I was wondering about that too..

However, the use of "escape" for two purposes (1. the escape
character, 2. a prefix for other control characters) is what I really
dislike. Was there, once upon a time, a standard that used 00 as the
prefix for control characters. Might cause problems in C strings
though...

Perhaps the prefix character really needs to be replaced with some
other character that doesn't already (and never will) exist on the
keyboard (if anything else exists).
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>