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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] home, end ^h^j^k^l
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:24:18 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> > no, I meant that the cursor keys move the cursor
> with glass ttys you learnt pretty quickly not to use
> them across tcp connections.  things like vi would use
> a timer to collect a multibyte [arrow key] sequences.
> bad stuff would happen if part of the sequence arrived
> late.

That is an artifact of a certain combination of historical
design errors, and need not affect use of the modern
workstation where each keypress is encoded in a single datum.