Re: Xywrite antiques

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie: EXCELLENT Suggestion (alt-table to alt-shift table)!. I've stayed away
from alt and used only ctrl and ctrl-shift for this reason.
 BUT, I second the request to Anne to let us all know which keys can and which
cannot have the meanings changed.
Dick Giering

Leslie Bialler wrote:

> Bill Troop wrote:
>
> > >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...
> >
>
> >
> > OK. then (1) which keys are these
>
> Those Windows menu functions accessed by alt+something will (a) invoke the
> appropriate Windows command and then (b) do what had expected. If, for example
> (as was the case with my kbd file) alt/f put XyWrite into expanded mode,
> searched for < this, but not before it drops down the _file_ menu.
>
> This leaves us brave and crazy XyWriters, accustomed as we are to "beat on,
> boats against the current" either to suffer in silence, rage rage against the
> dying of the light, or to adjust the kbd file so that what was on the
> alt-table is now on, say, the alt+shift table.
>
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