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by nothrabannosir 2619 days ago
Is this why the symbol for Ctrl is also commonly the symbol for xor?!
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jcr1488 2619 days ago
I'm not sure. I think the caret is just a prefix to make it distinguishable from the normal letters.

It is the reason why Ctrl+i in a terminal is the same as Tab though. Likewise for Ctrl+m == Enter.

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