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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:31:57 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: bash and the delete key
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At 20:16 2002-07-26, Some Beer-Swilling Patriot wrote:
> > Tony,
> >
> > Absolutely that's a problem!
> >
> > CTRL-V is the default assignment for "literal-next" ("lnext") in the
> > TTY driver
> >
>
>OK, but to people who never knew that, and now that they do can't imagine why
>they'd ever need it, is it a problem?  CTRL-V is "paste" in every windows
>program since 3.11 days, and it'd be hella-useful to remap it to something one
>would actually use.


Cygwin is not Windows. Cygwin does not aim to adopt Windows conventions 
within its environment, at least not as the default.

People who know what they're doing know what literal next is and does and 
they use it. How do you get a TAB into a command line with completion 
enabled? An ESC? A CTRL-A? CTRL-B? CTRL-C? CTRL-D? CTRL-E? CTRL-T? CTRL-P? 
CTRL-O? CTRL-N? Backslash doesn't handle non-printing characters, only 
literal next makes it possible to enter them on the command line.

Mapping the insert clipboard to the "Insert" key is sufficiently 
"hella-useful."

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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