Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:01:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: vim key commands - not too kool
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Daniel H. Luecking wrote:

> In my editor, the minimum seems to be 3:
>   <F12>f<return>
>   Meaning: 1. Run spellcheck

Is F12 defined to run the speller in the default configuration of the
editor, or is it your customization?  If it's not the default behavior, 
then this is not a fair comparison (I could easily bind the equivalent 
Emacs function to F12 as well).  It also won't work if the misspelled 
word is itself a valid (but different) word.

> However: mapping "^H" to help really was a bad choice. Yes, it only
> affected dumb terminals (where pressing <Backspace> sent "^H"), but it
> was a choice made in the days when for many of us dumb
> terminals connected to mainframe Unixes were our only choices. 

In those days, most terminals did NOT send ^H when you pressed
Backspace, so the default binding actually made sense for most of the
dumb terminals.  In fact, most Unix terminals didn't have a true
Backspace key for a long time, Backspace was essentially invented by
the PCs.  Unix terminals had DEL that sent the 7Fh code.