Subject: Re: The editor option

From: "Jens S. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:17:21 +0200

On 22 Apr 1996, Mike Brudenell wrote:

> My apologies... in my previous message I said the command sequence to
> explicitly invoke Pine's "alternate editor" was ^Z.  This is not generally
> true; the correct sequence is ^_.
> 
> (Here some of our terminals and terminal emulators cannot generate ^_, so
> I have to go through the Pine source and change ^_ to ^Z instead (and
> disable job control too so it doesn't clash with the keystroke)).

At a Danish keyboard, the command key is ^+ !  Probably the best
advice is "Control and the second key left of the erase key".

/Jens Stengaard Larsen ( = [email-masked] )

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From: [email-masked] (Peter J. Weyers)
Date: 4 May 1996 12:49:11 GMT

Jens S. Larsen ([email-masked]) wrote:

[regarding key to invoke alternate editor]
: At a Danish keyboard, the command key is ^+ !  Probably the best
: advice is "Control and the second key left of the erase key".

That is definit wrong! On all Terminals I'm using it's ^_ and that may be
on different places on the keyboard BTW it's never that close to the ESC key

Peter