Re: Couple of random thoughts

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

Another neat trick using XY's more arcane wild cards is assigning
a key to take you to the punctuation at the end of the sentence
no matter what it is. The "O" wildcard, done with *@O, stands for "or."
Assigning a command to the ctrl-period key such as
bc,s,e,/,.,O,!,O,?,/,xc where O is the wildcard, will do the
trick. I also use ctrl-comma for going to comma, colon, or
semicolon, but keep in mind that in keyboard files you have to
use "co" for comma.

There are a number of similar tricks & dodges in XPLNS.KBD, a
XyDOS keyboard you can download by FTP from the list server.

-- Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325
(nsivin@xxxxxxxx)