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  • Funnyness with raw mode.

    From deon@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 21 22:55:48 2020
    Hey DM,

    I'm trying to debug a message rendering issue, and went into raw mode (CTRL-Z) to see if the message renders correctly (and it does).

    Anyway, when raw mode is on, I've noticed 2 things:

    * Pressing ENTER at the main menu changes to the previous message sub (IE: like the down arrow does when not in raw mode).
    * Going to "D" Default user config and "Q" back, prefils the keyboard buffer with ;80R (on my wide screen iterm terminal its ;151R)

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to deon on Sat Nov 21 13:10:58 2020
    Re: Funnyness with raw mode.
    By: deon to Digital Man on Sat Nov 21 2020 10:55 pm

    Hey DM,

    I'm trying to debug a message rendering issue, and went into raw mode (CTRL-Z) to see if the message renders correctly (and it does).

    Anyway, when raw mode is on, I've noticed 2 things:

    * Pressing ENTER at the main menu changes to the previous message sub (IE: like the down arrow does when not in raw mode).
    * Going to "D" Default user config and "Q" back, prefils the keyboard buffer with ;80R (on my wide screen iterm terminal its ;151R)

    Yeah, not surprising at all.

    Raw mode not something you're expected to leave on for any extended period of time or for normal BBS use. It's main uses are:
    1. The "ASCII upload" of message text
    2. The debugging of output processing issues (e.g. word-wrap of messages)
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