MacTerminal 1.1 bug with insert/delete commands

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MacTerminal 1.1 bug with insert/delete commands

Post by Info-Mac » February 22nd, 1985, 1:45 am

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Subject: MacTerminal 1.1 bug with insert/delete commands
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 06:12:40 EST
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From: Karney%[email protected]

Earlier someone posted the following commands for MacTerminal

Insert Line esc [ pn L Insert pn lines at the cursor
Delete Line esc [ pn M Deletes pn lines starting with the cursor
Insert Char esc [ pn @ Insert pn blank characters at the cursor
Delete Char esc [ pn P Deletes pn characters starting at the cursor

These work. BUT they gobble the next characters and interpret them as
commands too. To see this, go into local mode and type:

abcde [ 3 LLLMMM@@@PPP

You will see that each L causes 3 lines to be inserted, each M causes 3
lines to be deleted etc. Surely this is a bug. (This is with
MacTerminal 1.1.)
---Charles Karney
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