Meh, ^A was the notation they used in the TECO (precursor to EMACS) pocket
guide in 1978, so its not particularly DOSish.
http://zane.brouhaha.com/~healyzh/teco/TecoPocketGuide.html
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>
wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > The *real* problem is that The Youth Of Today have forgotten that
> > that proper way to indicate "Control A" is ^A.
>
> I think you'll find that C-a predates the DOSish ^A.
>
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