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Documentation should be more clear on "Escape" keys C-a is "Ctrl-a" #112

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dlwalter opened this issue Oct 15, 2019 · 1 comment
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Documentation should be more clear on "Escape" keys C-a is "Ctrl-a" #112

dlwalter opened this issue Oct 15, 2019 · 1 comment

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The man page states the escape character is C-a but does not indicated that "C" is actually "Ctrl". I had to find the answer on stack overflow. Note that Minicom explicitly states that the escape character

from the Minicom man page:
Minicom is window based. To pop-up a window with the function you want, press Control-A (from now on, we will use C-A to mean Control-A)
wsakernel added a commit to wsakernel/picocom that referenced this issue Jul 10, 2022
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docs: mention that 'C-' is short for 'Control-'
9983685 
Remove 'C-a' from the first altered paragraph and properly introduce our
abbreviation in the second altered paragraph. Reported by dlwalter in
issue npat-efault#112.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
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I tried it like this: wsakernel@9983685

larsks pushed a commit to larsks/picocom that referenced this issue Aug 11, 2023
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docs: mention that 'C-' is short for 'Control-'
54377cc 
Remove 'C-a' from the first altered paragraph and properly introduce our
abbreviation in the second altered paragraph. Reported by dlwalter in
issue npat-efault#112.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
larsks pushed a commit to larsks/picocom that referenced this issue Aug 12, 2023
@wsakernel @larsks
docs: mention that 'C-' is short for 'Control-'
688b947 
Remove 'C-a' from the first altered paragraph and properly introduce our
abbreviation in the second altered paragraph. Reported by dlwalter in
issue npat-efault#112.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
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