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XMIT ... "transmit"? What did that key do? Was it analogous to ENTER or RETURN?
by kagevf 4y ago
XMIT ... "transmit"?
What did that key do?
Was it analogous to ENTER or RETURN?
- amelius 4y agoIf you enter a comment on HN, then ENTER will only move you to the next line. I suppose XMIT would be the same as hitting the reply button.
- kagevf 4y agoI was thinking something similar ... enter for "carriage return" inside a text entry field, then XMIT to send everything off.
- amelius 4y agoThis would also be great to write multiline code in a REPL (without all the backslashes). Though it might be more difficult to read.
- kagevf 4y agoWhich REPL? In emacs, depending on whether it's slime or ieml, you can do things like hit CTRL-J to get a line break without triggering an eval. Maybe it works in other REPLs too ...
- amelius 4y agoI was thinking of Bash, but it looks like it doesn't work.
- kagevf 4y agoI was able to use ctrl-j in bash (on ubuntu over ssh) and ctrl-j didn't trigger an execution. I just did something simple like: cat ./test.txt && # hit ctrl-j here > less ./test.txt # the ">" was generated by bash automatically So, it probably depends on what you're doing ...
- lispm 4y agoSymbolics keyboards had no XMIT key. That's probably a special key possible for this keymacs key. The Symbolics key has an END key. Enter something in a field. END ends the data entry.