an editor that doesn't require any esc or control keys to be used...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Mike, that is a very good point. You must then chose a character that you 
will not have in your code. 
{ War story }
Several years ago I was developing C code on an IBM 3270 (actually it was a 
graphics version) on MVS. Several characters were neither viewable nor 
insertable via the keyboard. 
My solution was to chose a couple of characters I did not use very often, 
and remap them to the {, [, }, and ]. We were using one of the IBM native 
editors. 
Conversely, the IBM printers did not print these characters by default. I 
had to go in and rewrite the translate tables for the printers. 
On 16 Aug 2002 at 12:43, mike ledoux wrote:

> Once you eliminate all escape and control sequences, you're left with a
> subset of plain-old 7-bit ASCII, right?  Alphanumerics and a few symbols;
> what character would you give up to use for ESC?

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