+++ Santiago Vila [2014-10-14 17:48 +0200]: > El 14/10/14 a las #4, Wookey escribió:
> >AIUI the backquote key (different from the grave accent dead-key) is > >the 'escape' character in jed, so to get one to appear on the screen > >you have to enter it twice. So that seems to be working as expected > >given the spanish keyboard setup. > > Seems like a design flaw, then. Whoever had the bright idea of using > a dead key as an escape character (which means *four* keystrokes in > a non-US keyboard) should be punished for that... It's only two keystrokes on a UK keyboard, but yes, it's not very helpful. I'm pretty sure Jed was written by an American who saw this as a little-used key suitable for this purpose :-) The man page confirms that backquote is used to insert the next key 'as is' rather than interpreting it as a command key of any sort. So it is handy for inserting control characters. e.g the 'real TAB' you wanted would be [backquote][ctrl[I]], or for putting newline chars into search/replace. I presume it's possible to configure the escape key to be something other key. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
