9 Jul
2016
9 Jul
'16
3:16 a.m.
Ron Natalie scripsit:
Hopkins actually had one of the “braindamaged
Hazeltines” (leave
poor tilde alone)
Not the terminal's fault. It was just implementing ASCII-63, in which
ESC was up by DEL, in the current position of ~. Other terminals did
ASCII-67, the current standard.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me]
Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev]
"Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre
And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael
Kay