3 Nov
2017
3 Nov
'17
2:32 a.m.
You’re right, if you leave out the extra ESC it might work better!
The "condom-with-a-hole-in-it” fix didn’t say exactly which characters to actually
type, or even that you had to use emacs, but who in their right mind would use vi to edit
a binary (and isn’t already running a root emacs anyway)?
-Don
On 2 Nov 2017, at 19:32, Lars Brinkhoff
<lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Don Hopkins wrote:
emacs /usr/ucb/sendmail (or whatever directory
you keep all your
stinky hippie software in), ^S DEBUG ESC M-b ^D ^Q ^@ ^X ^S (that is,
null out the first character of the “DEBUG” command).
This piqued my interest, because exiting incremental search with ESC
doesn't look familiar to me (unless in ITS). I tried it in a recent
Emacs, and just got "ESC M-b is undefined". Emacs 18 was contemporary
with the Morris Worm. Would it allow ESC?