copy to command line

[Allan Needell NASSH100@xxxxxxxx]

*** Resending note of 03/17/95 15:28
To: XYWRITE --CMSNAMES XYWRITE DISCUSSION

From: Allan Needell
Subject: copy to command line

Thanks Jack and Annie. Actually there is an easier way. I found
it by looking (of all places) through xywin help (Search "key
assignments").

The combo Control-Shift-Alt-C does the trick. A look into the
keyboard files reveals that that key (#46 in the C-S-A table) has
the following assignment:

46=XH,JM,(,C,o,p,y,T,o,C,M,)

What this means is that the nice folks at TTG/Xyquest have a menu
routine they call "CopyToCM", which does just what I want (XH
clears any open help screens or menu selections). I have now
assigned the same command to the otherwise unassigned C-S-Grey+
key. That's close enough to the way Notabene does it (and
preserves the number pad as a number pad--which I like). The
single key combo is really quite convenient when doing specific
search and replace routines from the command line. Try it.

Allan Needell, Dept. of Space History, Nat'l Air & Space Museum
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