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Re: Change of kdb serial attention key

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Change of kdb serial attention key
From: "Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02 Oct 2000 14:44:13 +0200
Cc: kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Keith Owens's message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:44:17 +1100"
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>>>>> "keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

keith> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:04:20 -0700 (PDT), 
keith> Scott Lurndal <slurn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:11:16AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>>> > I am thinking of changing the kdb serial attention key from control/A,
>> 
>> Perhaps ^K?  It has mnemonic appeal. 

keith> Kill-line in emacs and gnu readline when in emacs mode.  I want to
keith> avoid any key that is already used on its own.  Andi's suggestion of ^X
keith> looks good, it is the emacs escape character but is always used in
keith> combination with another key so looking for 3 consecutive ^X will avoid
keith> emacs problems.

I agree with Andy suggestion of ^X, I tried to use ^Q here and some
times it messed up with the Control Flow commands.  ^K has the problem
that as everybody knows, it is the kill-line comand in emacs (yes I
see that there are more emacs users out here :))))

Later, Juan.

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