>>>>> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May
Radovan> wrote:
>> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my
>> editor to go to the top of the file, and all of a sudden, the
>> escape comes detached from the [D, and I suddenly end up
>> altering my file, inserting invalid data, perhaps without even
>> realizing it.
>>
>> IMHO, the sooner this dead escape standard is dropped in favour
>> of the better standard (IIRC: set the high bit on control
>> characters), the
Radovan> are you sure this would be better? you need to type 8-bit
Radovan> characters too...
I was wondering about that too..
However, the use of "escape" for two purposes (1. the escape
character, 2. a prefix for other control characters) is what I really
dislike. Was there, once upon a time, a standard that used 00 as the
prefix for control characters. Might cause problems in C strings
though...
Perhaps the prefix character really needs to be replaced with some
other character that doesn't already (and never will) exist on the
keyboard (if anything else exists).
--
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
