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Re: Meaning behind Control-G


From: Lars Brinkhoff
Subject: Re: Meaning behind Control-G
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:06:48 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)

AI memo 118 from January 1967 is interesting.  It says about TECO:

  "|G   Takes an optional string argument which, if give, is passed on
        to MACDMP [...]"

"|G" means Control-G.  To have TECO go to MACDMP is a form of abort.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5878




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