RE: Re: Ilisp key binding changes (Option #2) - Please Review

"Clementson, Bill" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.ilisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Lars Brinkhoff on Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:15 PM
> "Clementson, Bill" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Incidentally, does anyone have a list of what characters are 
> > ALWAYS present on terminals?
> 
> A good terminal should be able to produce all ASCII characters.  Some
> terminals have problems with control characters, and I don't think
> there are any guarantees, but I guess C-@ (or C-SPC), C-a, ..., C-z
> and ESC should be present on most terminals.

Based on replies from a number of people, it looks like the "a" - "z" 
characters and numbers are the safest characters to use. I'll try to 
limit myself to those keys as much as possible.

--
Bill Clementson


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