On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:19:43PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> How was the humble user to know?
>
> I hope there are no other cases like this (the Debian version
> being modified without the man page being updated).
>
> "A surprise to the user is a bug".
Oh, it's not a Debian-only change.
Josip Rodin schreef:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel
> wrote:
>
>>> Your remedy could be to use the new key binding...
>>>
>>> % grep ^quote /etc/joe/joerc | grep Ctrl quote ^[
>>> 'Enter Ctrl chars
>>>
>>> It was changed in the new version. (
Josip Rodin schreef:
> Your remedy could be to use the new key binding...
>
> % grep ^quote /etc/joe/joerc | grep Ctrl
> quote ^[ 'Enter Ctrl chars
>
> It was changed in the new version. (^[ means Esc.)
Then it should be changed in the manpage as well.
Regards, Jan
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Package: joe
Version: 3.5-1.1
Severity: important
It used to be possible to enter control chars and other chars of arbitrary
value by entering ` first. You would get a prompt at the bottom of the
screen:
Ctrl- (or 0-9 for dec. ascii, x for hex, or o for octal)
This no longer works in the pres
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