Re: Xydos 4.018 under Win 98 - cursor movement problem; can anyone

[Carl Distefano cldxtra@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:41:54 EST

-> I am using Xy4-3.kbd. Some corruption has crept in that fouls
-> up execution of the next-word and previous-word function calls
-> in table=alt. This applies with keys 101 (PW) and 103 (NW),
-> but not with 75 and 77 in the number pad....
->
-> What happens is that I get extraneous characters inserted where
-> the cursor stops, varying with how many words I skip to reach
-> the one I want to edit. 

A few shifted keystrokes (the arrow keys chief among them) have a
tendency to "leak through" to DOS. There's a function intended to
prevent this: NI. It stands for "Not-IBM sensitive", a quaint
throwback to the 15 minutes or so in the early '80s when that
company held sway over personal computing. It usually works. Your
assignments would look like this:

101=NIPW
103=NINW

(Does that comma-less syntax look odd? Fact is, commas after
keyboard-file functions are optional. (Commas after characters are,
of course, mandatory.) You can save a couple of hundred bytes of
memory by omitting needless commas.)

Let us know if this works. Many thanks for including useful
information in the subject line of your query!

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Carl Distefano
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