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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: cannot leave mark mode (K-95)
Date: 24 Nov 1997 13:38:45 GMT
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In article <65ae3a$8m7$1@news2.xs4all.nl>, <pim@cti.nl> wrote:
: Lately, I repeatedly seem to get myself stuck in mark mode, after
: selecting some screen text by dragging the left mouse button or
: after pasting it with the middle button.
:
: Now I am lucky, because I notice this on the status line. But my
: collegues have the same problem, and they use AT386 emulation,
: which hides the status line.
:
: What could cause this ? This did not happen before, but I cannot
: recall whether these problems began after some K95 upgrade (now 1.1.15)
: or some NT service pack (now SP3).
:
It happens to me sometimes too, when I am trying to paste into the K95
terminal screen. I think it is a question of mouse dexterity. Personally,
I am not terribly dextrous with a mouse and so sometimes my clicks are too
close together, or not close enough.
: And what's a safe way to force leaving mark mode ? I now have to
: kill K95 to leave mark mode.
:
Not at all. There is a \Kverb called \KmarkCancel, which is assigned to
Ctrl-F2 by default, at least in the VT emulations.
I suspect it might be a good idea to include this action among those
performed by "Terminal Reset" (\Kreset, Alt-R); we'll consider this.
- Frank