From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Meaning behind Control-G Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:56:21 +0000 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <7wy2p75ie2.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <871rnnvmdx.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnb7sira.fsf@red-bean.com> <87lflcg0k9.fsf@red-bean.com> <0f1cd319-fa8c-4453-b909-fdd36f337906@default> <87zh9scdf8.fsf@warpmail.net> <7w367f6y81.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="107911"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UveSfFy9DwPoO1j6d5U23jcsnjk= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 01 09:57:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jffJn-000Rx8-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jffJm-0000NM-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jffJ6-0008Bm-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:51886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jffJ6-00049l-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jffJ4-000R51-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:56:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/01 03:29:08 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251718 Archived-At: Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > I don't see Control-G Here either, so maybe it was added after 1964: > https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/its-archives/blob/master/ailab/pdp6-memo-2.pdf I don't see Control-G in AI memo 81 "PDP-6 TECO" from 1965. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5917 I do see it as "quit" in the description of ITS DDT in AI memo 147 from 1968. It seems likely that once DDT or TECO added Control-G, it would have jumped to the other pretty quickly. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5862