Post #2741013
2026-05-13 23:41 UTC
@drawkcab@hachyderm.io I don't know about that. The sed situation is essentially the existence of an "away colours" delimiter.
The TECO thing exists entirely to support terminals with no escape key by allowing the remapping of something else.
"Note that when an ESCape surrogate is set, the designated character (when typed at the console) is received by TECO as an ESCape -- that character is no longer directly available at the keyboard."
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@theohonohan@graphics.social 2026-05-14 14:18
@drawkcab@hachyderm.io I just remember unfortunate people in a CAD class I attended a few years ago here in Dublin (all of whom had some kind of disability) having to key in this cargo-cult double Return combo in AutoCAD. The sed situation (being able to format a regex as 's#foo#fu#' instead of 's/foo/fu/', with no further configuration or fuss) is just a case where delimiters get out of the way.