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From: Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there?
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>    MI=E2=90=9B=E2=90=9B
>
> This would echo on-screen as
>
>    MI$$
>
> and so my fellow students, trying to follow my instructions by looking at
> the screen output I was producing instead of what I was saying (=E2=80=9C=
emm eye
> escape escape=E2=80=9D, I said), would type =E2=80=9C$=E2=80=9D instead o=
f pressing the ESC key,
> and they would be mystified why it wouldn=E2=80=99t work.
>
> It took them two or three attempts before I noticed what they were doing
> wrong ...
>
I know that of course. In all of my materials (also in SciTECO itself), I=
=20
am printing Escape and all ^x control characters in reverse (or at least=20
in bold) in order to visually highlight that they are not to be read verbat=
im.
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