Re: Xywrite antiques

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≪ The point she was making was that there are a lot of keys
that NBWIN does NOT allow you to define, no matter what you
put in your kbd file ... ≫ --Rene von Rentzell

≪ (1) which keys are these ≫ --Bill Troop

Hi, Bill. If you have nbWin I think you already
have lists of hard-coded keys: *.KBD (XYWRITE.KBD,
NB.KBD, whatever) supershift tables--possibly
originally in [d:\...]\NB\USERS\DEFAULT, the subdir
where some of the heaviest nbWin action goes on
(especially NB.INI--see http://www.escape.com/~yesss/_x45xpl.htm).

Harry mentioned his frustration at nbWin's insistence
on overriding his preferred Ctrl+F assignment. As far
as I can tell, the *entire* nbWin Ctrl+alphabetic table
is hard-coded. (As Leslie pointed out about Alt keys,
if you map something to a dedicated key the app performs
the hard-coded function *plus* whatever you've mapped--
not a pretty picture.)

By contrast, in xyWin basically only the handful of
Alt+alphabetic keys that address the menus behave
that way.

≪ (2) would Anne please tell us if these concerns
will, or can, ever be addressed? ≫

Since these dedicated keys activate nbWin functions,
I don't think it's unrealistic to guess that the file
that defines them (whatever it is) belongs to nbWin,
not SmartWords, thus isn't required to use the editor.
But only Anne can say for sure, and whether these
concerns ever *will* be addressed. ... Ciao. 			--a

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