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Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing



On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:

> >i don't know why it's doing it when you press esc twice. i have to press
> >esc four times to do it...
> 
> Is this on a console or over a terminal?  It may be that you have to press
> escape twice to get a single escape character to be read; that is,
> escape may be acting as a sticky modifier, and you have to hit it 
> twice to get the actuasl keycode.

rxvt, actually. Same happens in a console, and in a telnet from my console
to my own machine.

Escape probably is acting as a sticky modifier, since that's what it is in
a console. Naturally then, esc-esc qould be necessary to send a plain
escape character to the console.


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