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> >Nathan WRote: > > >Your tip about reclaiming ALT key gratefully received.
May I add that
> >when you want the menu bar, you can call it up by holding down the right
> >mouse button and double-clicking on the first line with the left. This
> >has the advantage of also being a hathayoga asana that increases the
> >powers of concentration.
> > Or just type at the command line: func sho.

  What the heck are you guys talking about? Hit the F10 key, for pete's sake.
8-) Or did you both go back to XY3 all of a sudden? BTW, Jim's mod for the ALT
key (to stop it from starting the menu bar) is great, don't know why I didn't
try that before -- I think what I tried to do earlier involved trying to remove
that specific line from the startup.int, and that caused a crash on booting the
program.
  Now, if I could just figure out a way to get the old XY3 header back so that
Bookshelf would still work with XY4!

> I don't know about hatha yoga for mice; I don't own one. I'm morally
> opposed to anything that takes one's hands off the keyboard.

  So am I -- what I did was buy a Logitech portable trackball (what they sell
for laptops) and hung it on the right end of my keyboard, which, BTW, is always
on my lap anyway.

> >Could you explain, for the benefit of the assembled multitude, how to
> >shift the saveget functions from F2 to the newly freed ALT? Most people
> >will want to do all this at once, I should think.

 I'm not sure I do, Nathan -- I did at first, after getting Signature, but now
I'm used to it. What then, pray tell, would you do with the F2 key?

Here's another thought -- I've long been lusting after one of those Maxiswitch
124 key keyboards with all the programmable keys. Has anyone tried one with XY?
I've got a Northgate with F-keys on the left and also across the top -- the top
ones were supposed to be programmable, but all they do is get set to either
Shift -F, or Crtl-F, or Alt-F, and all the same. So I've got mine all set to
Shift-F, but I only use a few. So I'm probably going to get a Maxiswitch.
 On the other hand, I'm looking very seriously at several types of one handed
"chording" keyboards, and definitely am going to buy one of those as soon as I
can figure out which one. I want to learn to use it with my left hand (I'm
righthanded), so I can figure out if it increases my creativity (using
rightbrain to write). And also to build a more portable rig for away from home.
Am also looking seriously at a pen tablet -- has anyone tried using pen stuff
with XY? Gee, if I can chord with my left hand, and use a pen tablet with my
right --- hmmm!

Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx

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