Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:03:59 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: angio@aros.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kbdcontrol change Message-ID: <199602150003.RAA04545@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199602141007.UAA16829@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 14, 96 08:37:14 pm
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Lo and behold, Michael Smith once said: > Dave Andersen stands accused of saying: > > > > I got annoyed with kbdcontrol's inability to put returns or tabs in > > macros (makes it difficult to do multi-line commands. :), so I patched it > > to handle \ notation.. > > Not necessarily a bad thing... > > > kbdcontrol -f 1 "cd /\nls\ncd\n" > > But what's wrong with "cd /;nls;ncd" ?? It still won't handle the trailing return correctly, and it won't work if you want to make it do a sequence of characters in (say) a text editor that doesn't support other kinds of macroing. Admittedly, 16 characters is a really short macro, but you can always hit F1F2 to type your signature (which, actually, I have it set to do). I just feel that it's a change that lends some more functionality without causing any problems. And I think it'd be a welcome one based on the email I got from someone else. -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."
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