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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: cscope_macros.vim keyboard mapping odd behavior...
From:       "Antoine J. Mechelynck" <antoine.mechelynck () belgacom ! net>
Date:       2003-11-30 14:13:45
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owen beresford <owencanprogram@fastmail.fm> wrote:
[...]
> I thought `nul` was a nasty ms-dos invention, and all true software
> used `null`
> I haven't looked this up, so don't rely on my tendencies.
>
> ¦:-o
> Owen
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There are several points to be addressed here:

1. All things MS-DOS are not necessarily nasty, any more than all things
Unix are necessarily holy.

2. As a device name, MS-DOS uses NUL where Unix uses /dev/null and other
systems (such as the Cobol-talking mainframes on which I broke my teeth
thirty years ago) don't use anything because the concept is foreign to them.

3. As an ASCII character of value zero, all systems, whether MS-DOS, Unix or
otherwise, use NUL and/or Ctrl-@.

Regards,
Tony.


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