Re: Next Sentence (NS) glitch; was Re: More on Tame

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Xywrite3plus@xxxxxxxx on Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:55:38 EST

Peter:

> long ago I
> dedicated a few keys in my keyboard file to moving the cursor to the next or
> previous sentence. The relevant entries in the keyboard file are:
> XX=NI,NS,CR
> to get to the beginning of the next sentence..., and
> XX=NI,PW,PS,CR,NS,CR
> to get to the beginning of the sentence preceding... These work most of the
> time, on most files. Occasionally, though, just with
> some files, or with certain parts of some files, the cursor jumps to the next
> or preceding *paragraph* (not the next or preceding sentence). I see nothing
> in expanded view that could account for this, and it never happened before
> Win2000. Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting this?

Except for the W2K-only part, I'd look first at the troublesome files/sections
with a DOS-level file lister. They may have hex 0D or 0A by themselves (lone
cr, lone linefeed) -- eminently possible if the docs weren't produced by
XyWrite in the first place.

The W2k-only aspect suggests that you might have a hair-trigger repeat rate on
your keyboard. Is this behavior consistently reproducible within those
troublesome sections -- or is it erratic? Slow the repeat rate down a bit in
Control Panel...

Try dropping NI, just for the heck of it.

You're sure they're not "soft" s? You don't use the same char to represent
both soft and hard CRs, do you?

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Robert Holmgren
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