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Kee Hinckley

@b0rk Given keyboard makers’ fondness of hiding the ESC key, it’s sometimes useful (especially for vi users) to know that ^[ is also ESC.

8 July at 20:55 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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Kevin Lyda

@nazgul @b0rk Not sure if they were DEC VT terminals but I seem to recall some early serial terminal keyboards lacked an escape key so that's why I knew ^[ - and I was an emacs user back then. I worked with Kee when I moved from emacs to vi - ironically in the process of building emacs on Unixware.

8 July at 20:58 | Open on mastodon.ie
Brian Hawthorne

@lyda @nazgul @b0rk I know the VT52 already had an ESC key. But I bet anything before then didn’t. The decscope VT52 was really a game changer in many ways.

9 July at 2:42 | Open on infosec.exchange
Brian Hawthorne

@lyda @nazgul @b0rk Oh but anyways, yes it does seem familiar. I have an old muscle memory from doing that. It wasn’t the tectonic graphics terminals; at least the ones I used had ESC.

I’m trying to remember who made those amber on black terminals. Programmable typefaces for non-Roman orthographies. I don’t remember if they had an escape. That was 1982 I think.

9 July at 2:49 | Open on infosec.exchange
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