termcap

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:29:08AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> picking the correct termcap can be a bit tricky.  Here's a case
>> where 'vi' is your friend.  Using the Ctrl-V prefix, you can
>
>You know that's available in any program, or at the prompt, right?  It's
>the stty setting for lnext, not a vi-specific.
>
>Maybe you knew and just didn't say it.  (I'd -think- you'd know!)

Why would I know that?  I've been using vi (the One True Editor :-)
since 1982 on Radio Shack Xenix so don't even think of other ways
to do things like that.  Typically I'm only looking at things
like that when editing termcaps and such so need to know what
specific keys send while editing.

Bill
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