termcap

[Paul McNary]

Mark, you are gaining humor, that's refreshing! :-)
Your answers have been friendly as of late.
Take care
Paul


On 4/19/2018 12:48 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> Because you're older, wiser, and more experienced than I?  :)
>
> Ya -try- and give someone credit...
>
> Yeah, it's stty lnext that's actually doing it for you.
>
> So...you disavow emacs, I take it?  :)  *duck*
>
> m->
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:21:01AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> 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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