Subject: Characters used (or not) in Pine

From: UMABnet Help Account <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 13:04:31 -0500

Is ^? used anywhere in pine or in pico?  How about in emacs?

Thanks for the help.

Miriam Jaffe

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 17 Mar 1995 18:25:20 GMT

>Is ^? used anywhere in pine or in pico?  How about in emacs?

    What do you mean, ``^?''  This pair of printable characters is how
the DELete character (decimal code 127), a non-printing character, is
represented by Unix, the way that a backspace (control-H) is represented
as ``^H''.  If you mean this, yes, in all three, they normally delete
the previous character.

    If you mean control-?, there is no such character.  There are 32
control characters, @, A-Z, [, \, ], ^, and _.  Some keyboards may
recognize the control key when used in combination with other keys,
like ? or numbers, but these are not ASCII control characters.

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