Re: keyboard glitch

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Bruce:
> Recently, when I use an apostrophe (key 40) before the letter s
> (30), as soon as I release the s key a second apostrophe
> appears on the screen (''s).

Leslie:
> Is this what you mean? busman"s holdiay but the busses' express
> lanes?

Bruce:
> Yes; you put your finger on the problem (stating it better than
> I did).

Glad you understand each other, gentlemen.

Leslie:
> Anyway, we have now ruled out . . . your speller file. The next
> step would be to temporarily rename your customized keyboard .
> . . and reload your uncustomized, standard-issue keyboard file.

Bruce:
> I did so, and the problem vanished. I will recustomize as
> needed.

Leslie (paraphrasing):
> Um, er, uh, you're throwing out your whole keyboard file
> because of a stray apostrophe somewhere (probably on a line
> starting with "31=")?!? Not that there's anything wrong with
> that....

And so, as Bruce rides off with a plain-vanilla keyboard file,
having taken a sledgehammer to years worth of painstaking
customizations to swat a pesky little "pos" (or was it a double
quote?), the rest of us have learned that the "keyboard glitch"
(whatever it was) had something to do with ... the keyboard file.

Or, as Woody Allen said after finishing "War and Peace": "It's about
Russia."

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Carl Distefano
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