Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> writes:

 | [...]
 |
 | No, this is where things break. No existing programs have \e in their
 | source, but they may be using \x7f, by whatever representation in the
 | source, and they may rely on that character to perform the action it
 | does natively. Your translator prevents them from behaving the way
 | they expect to.

   Hey, I've just had this really great idea!

   Why don't we try to propose a new alphabetic escape sequence to
represent this character?

   Say '\d' = DEL = 127?

   Can we start the whole \e thread all over again now, please? I'm
enjoying it so much!

   :-)

        /|
 o o o (_|/
        /|
       (_/




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Jonathan R. Coxhead <Jonathan.Coxhead@sv.sc.philips.com> wrote in message
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>    Why don't we try to propose a new alphabetic escape sequence to
> represent this character?
>
>    Say '\d' = DEL = 127?
>
>    Can we start the whole \e thread all over again now, please? I'm
> enjoying it so much!

The moderators will love that.  This thread is currently over 500 messages
long!  In all honesty, I'm getting to the point where I ever brought this
one up.  The two sides seem to be so polarized.

Greg Brewer

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In article <w44r9jepyqz.fsf_-_@sv.sc.philips.com>,
Jonathan R. Coxhead <Jonathan.Coxhead@sv.sc.philips.com> wrote:
>   Say '\d' = DEL = 127?

Well, it'd be really useful for people who want to write programs to drive
emacs, since they're presumably currently stuck using backspace.

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