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That's exactly the reason the keys were assigned that way. Pat yourself on the back, kid ;-)


exactly the reason starting with ^H is backspace (left) and ^J is linefeed (down)


Ha ha, good one.

Does the analogy hold for ^M which is carriage return?

Anyway, I remember that stuff. Had a lot of "fun" on Unixes back in the day using things like ^J, ^M, ^H, stty sane, stty -a, stty icrnl, stty onlcr (or is it the other way around), fiddling with termcap and terminfo, and much more ...




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