Re: keyboard position

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Martin, are you enjoying the results?

I've added some functionality to $X which I like, such as the ability to
dispense with "cd" in changing directories.


If I want to change to \dropbox\xy from say \users\hb\AppData I need only
do this:


x

Here's how it's done. I inserted into $X a line that JuMps to a frame for
cd-ing and tries that as a last resort before resulting in an error
message. The frame for cd-ing is simple-mindedly written as a bunch of
 statements. One of them is:


=="x">BX cd \dropbox\xyQ2 

It's actually not exactly that but that gives you the idea.


Thanks, Harry. I see you assign it to the Enter key (28). Do you also
have a key for a bare carriage return, as Carl suggests? The Enter key on
the number pad (104)?


Martin

On 1/16/2014 12:20 AM, Harry Binswanger wrote:

In TABLE=
28=Q8$X

The Q8 is for the Microlytics spell-checker.

Also, you need to have this as the first entry in Xy4.DLG, and it needs
to be surrounded by those smiley faces you get for ASCII 02:

{{5$?}} Redirect source for funcs $A-$Z|$0-$9 from .DLG to .U2 [CLD]
≪SX00,≪VA$FR≫≫JM 2.≪PV00≫Q2

You understand that "≪" means a left guillemet and that JM and Q2 are
the pfuncs.



Many thanks, Carl. I've decoded the frame and added it to the U2
file. Now I should add an entry in my keyboard file, right? What do
you recommend?

Thanks also for your work on v120!

Martin

On 1/13/2014 11:04 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:


Reply to note from "Martin J. Osborne" 
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:09:12 -0500

Martin:


I know that I have to first decode the frame. I copied the
code below into a file and tried decode but got the
error "No Start Cue - Abort". Can someone help me out?


The program that Harry and I each used to encode the frame is not in
the last public release of U2 (which indeed is v119 from 2007). It's
Wally Bass's XYENC.COM; the companion routine, XYDEC.COM, is
required for decoding. Information about the Bass encode and decode
utilities, my justification for adopting them, and setup
instructions are all in my post to the list from February of last
year:

http://www.freelists.org/post/xywrite/EncodeDecode-Important

If anything there isn't clear, feel free to contact me, on- or off-
list.

Once you get the frame decoded, DeFine it in its entirety and issue
ADD2U2 to add it to your U2 file.


Is there a compilation anywhere of changes and additions [to U2]
since 2007?


Alas, no. I've been working for some time on v120, which will
include the latest versions of existing frames, along with many new
ones that have been posted individually here over the years. It's a
big project, and I'm still some months away from completing it,
having just embarked on the most time-consuming part -- updating the
documentation. Of course I'll post a notice here when it's done.


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http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne

Theoretical Economics, a journal of the Econometric Society
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