Subject: Using ^^ to mark lines

From: Eddie Leonardi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 21:40:30 +1000 (EET)

Dear Sirs,

I have recently started to use Pine 3.89 and am having problems using
the mark text command "^^". This us used by our network switch to suspend 
a given work session and put the user back to the switch.  Is there some 
other command which can also be used to mark text or is it possible to 
redefine this command??

Regards
Eddie

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From: Ken Weaverling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:01:39 -0500 (EST)

If you are using a Cisco terminal server, just press ^^ twice in a row.
If you are using a 3COM or Data General terminal server, you can redefine
the "ECMC" character to something else. For example: set privilige
level to global and then redefine for each port with a terminal on it.

> set pri=g
Password: whatever
> setd (!1) ecmc=^\

Note ... type out the chars ^ and \ above, don't use CTRL-\

If you are just a "common" user on a 3COM term server, log in, then
first time you press ^^ and go to the term server prompt, enter the
command "set ecmc=^\" and then "resume" and you are back into business.

> other command which can also be used to mark text or is it possible to 

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From: Kari Sutela <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 08:55:49 +0200

On Mon, 17 Jan 1994, Eddie Leonardi wrote:

> the mark text command "^^".

I'm not sure if this is a problem with my terminal emulation program but 
using ^^-key as the mark command is rather hard on finnish keyboards.  
On finnish keyboards the ^-key is a "dead" accent key: it isn't complete 
until it's followed by another key (the key to be accented with the 
"hat").

Unfortunately, pressing control and the key with the "^" cap on my
terminal does not produce a control-^.  To get a ^^ I must hit
control-shift-6!  I had no problems finding this out as I know the US
keyboard layout well but for persons who have never seen a US keyboard
(and probably never will) this is very peculiar as the shift-6 normally 
produces an ampersand (&) on finnish keyboards.

Oh well, it's probably too late to change anything.  I only wish that the 
special keys were configurable to some extent. 

/KS