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Re: Xy4U2



(Pan to my face, flushed with embarrassment) . . . I've solved my own problem, which as so often happens, was an example of operator error. The error was that on my Dvorak keyboard, the "-" key is adjacent to the "s" key and I had been pressing ctrl-s, which I also have modified in the kbd file as "STore." Enough said (as he slinks away . . .)

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 12:42 PM Fred Weiner <fw1948@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear XyWrite List aficionados,

Here's one for Carl, and possibly Edward. I like to use the em dash rather than the "--" available in plain text in XyWrite. As such, years ago I programmed a key combo in my kbd file like this:

12=[260] (in the CTRL table)

where the [260] is actually the code in XY for the em dash (not accurately reproducible here). This has worked for years; in a document I press ctrl and hyphen and there that code would be, and would print out as an em dash.

Since switching to the Ed-Distro (thanks to Bill Troop for this excellent naming; it could also be EMDistro or the like), when I press ctrl/hyphen the file disappears, without a warning to save, and the cursor sits on the command line, as if nothing has happened at all. I lost a whole file this way. I've also checked the MacOS keyboard preference to make sure that combination doesn't do anything system wide: it doesn't. Since then, I've tried to use a substitution in my (loaded via startup.int) spl (spelling) file like this:

--(then space)[260]

with that [260] in code form that I copied over from another file that had it, not as plain text. Saved the spl file, reloaded, or quit XY and went back in, none of which had any effect at all. My guess is that the substitution is not equipped to handle it, or that I should have formatted the substitution differently. Ideas welcome . . .

Thanks to all,

FW


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 4:57 PM Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
laptops), do you have a suggestion for another method? As for copying to
CLIP$, where is that "file" located?
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Does this photo match your keyboard (some keyboards apparently have a
globe in that position, but it does the same thing):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b020hercftpzkp3/MacFn.png?dl=0