console man page info on escape sequences confusingly uses 'E' when it actually means 'e'

[Jeff Lane ]

The manpage for console, as provided by conserver-client, confusingly shows the following as the escape sequence for a console session:

^Ec followed by some other character.

This is described in a couple examples in the man page like so:

^Ec\ooo

control-E c

This is a bit confusing, as 'E' can reasonably be interpreted as 'SHIFT+e'

thus ^+SHIFT+e does not work while ^+lowercase e does work.

Especially since the escape sequences also use both Lower and Upper case... thus:

       p playback the last 60 lines of output
       P set number of playback lines

means:

CTRL+<lower e> <lower p>
or
CTRL+<lower e> SHIFT+p

But the docs would, logically, display this as ^E P
which reads as
CTRL+<SHIFT+e> SHIFT+p

when actually meaning
CTRL+<lower e> SHIFT+p

By comparison, the default escape sequence for 'screen' is ^a followed by some other character sequence. The man page there notes this (also mildly confusingly) as C-a (C for CONTROL and a for lower a). But the manpage uses capital letters where it means capital letters such as:

C-a Q, meaning CTRL+a followed by SHIFT+q

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: conserver-client 8.2.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52~18.04.1-generic 5.4.60
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Wed Oct 7 15:04:41 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (1700 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210)
SourcePackage: conserver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)