Re: More on Tame

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At 12/10/2002 10:15 PM -0500, Martin J. Osborne
wrote:
> Incidentally, I have written to David Thomas about these problems, and
> he has promised to investigate.


Maybe the answer is in the dissonance between the cursor keys on the number
pad and 100-103. I hope he looks at that. And as for the CTRLX label,
wasn't the X to handle problems with the eXtended keyboard??? At all
events, you're right: it does not appear to be a Tame problem. One other
thing I've noticed: when I call up a file, often a section of text is
mysteriously highlighted. I hit esc and it disappears, but it's very
strange. Again this may not be a TAME problem. Finally and overall, the
jerkyness has been reduced to a pokeyness. This is real progress. And it's
encouraging that David Thomas is working on this.


Michael Norman



> >And my control
> > tables are CTRLX. Are your's?
>
>     Hmmm ... my understanding (consistent with a quick test just now) is
> that
> XXX=29,99
> near the start of the file means that "XXX" is defined to mean either
> key 29 or key 99, which are "shift" keys. The subsequent
> TABLE=XXX
> defines the effect of combining 29 and 99 with any other (non-shift)
> keys. XXX can be anything, I believe---it's just a "dummy variable".
> So saying
> CTRL=29,99
> and then
> TABLE=CTRL
> is exactly the same as saying
> CTRLX=29,99
> and then
> TABLE=CTRLX
> or indeed
> XYZ=29,99
> and then
> TABLE=XYZ
> (probably there is a limit on the length of the string you can use,
> though).
>
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