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Re: Replace with CR
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Gian Uberto Lauri |
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Re: Replace with CR |
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Mon, 6 Jul 2015 10:49:15 +0200 |
Stefan Monnier writes:
> > Again, there's no such thing as ENTER. The key is RETURN.
>
> FWIW, my keyboard (US thinkpad) has no "RETURN", but it does have a key
> labelled "Enter".
I have "Return" on my old VIC20, but I doubt Emacs will be ever ported
there...
"Return" was a tty-derivative labeling and was once common, even when
it sent a LF o CR/LF[1] pair. Enter is much common now and closer to
semantic the keys has today for most computer users. Enough common to
build jokes on, see the two strips I posted.
[1] for those who still do not know it: the pair is CR/LF and not
LF/CR because on old TTY the carriage return was a longer operation
that could be controlled without keeping the tty controller busy: you
could start the head carriage, and while the it was going home move
the paper drum one line.
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