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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: DEC, in their infinite wisdom... (was Re: So what _is_ so good about vi?)
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:19:14 GMT
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- In article <DAVIS.93Jan20171252@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) writes:
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- >I am coming to the belief that DEC purposely designs keyboards which make it
- >irritating to edit with any other editor than their own.
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- Annoying in principle, but not so much in practice (for me) as, say, a
- Sun keyboard ... "Backspace" where the "Delete" key is on any
- civilized keyboard, not to mention "Control" and "Caps Lock" swapped,
- a tiny little "Return" key, and so on.
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