Re: CML2-2.0.4 is available

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:13:37 -0500


Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>:
> Maybe better: use other keystrings. I.e. Control + key.
> In this way is more difficult to press the wrong key sequence, but we
> still have the full features in all modes.

Not a bad idea, but where possible I like to keep the ttyconfig and menuconfig
commands the same -- and ttyconfig can't easily see control characters.

Anyway this would just address a surface symptom. The real problem is
that the deduction engine can do bad things when suppression is off.
I want to fix that.

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