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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:38:20 +0000
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rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes:

> Further, you completely missed the point.
> dhog claimed that typing a backspace key should
> send a backspace character, just like typing an
> 'a' sends an 'a' character; the ascii
> semantics of backspace are not relevant
> to that particular claim.

I have way more keys that ASCII has codes for.  How exactly should
that work?  X has a good way (even Lispms had a good way).