Re: help (key)

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> How do I send the help key?  man tn5250 says help is M-h, but I can't
> figure it out.  Isn't M for Meta the same as Alt?  I tried Ctrl-Alt-h,
> Alt-h, Ctrl-h, Shift with each of those...
> 
> I'll never understand why programs don't all use F1 for help!  (The
> AS/400 programs underneath, not tn5250)

Maybe you are beyond help <g>  Actually, the reason is backward compatibility,
since almost nothing used F1 for help on the System/36, as there was this
separate help key.  Applications ported from S/36 land or written by old-timers
might not expect F1.

M-h is Meta-H (Alt-H on modern keyboards, although it might soon mean Apple-H
for me ;-), which on some kinds of terminals sends Esc-H - that is where the
confusion lies (I'm assuming - I didn't write the man pages).

Use Esc-H.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

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