On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May 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
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