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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:20:34 -0500
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- From: "Sarah L. Higley" <slhi@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU>
- Subject: Re: NB4 Keyboard reassignment
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- Bob, you must have come aboard after all the flack I put on the bandwidth
- about keyboard customization. I received invaluable tips from Ken, Jerry,
- Itamar and many others about how to revise your nb.kbd file. You can
- access this file just like any other file. It's best to do this in ascii
- mode if you have nb lingua, because Lingua will introduce hidden characters
- that will corrupt the file. I know this from hard experience, even after
- the good advice of my helpers. Before you do anything, save the nb.kbd
- file under another name so that you can retrieve it if something goes wrong.
- Or copy it to another disk. What I did was to copy nb.kbd and nblingua.kbd
- to the WORK directory on my hard disk, then I copied the same files to
- a floppy disk under new names: nbkbd2, lingkbd2 and edited THOSE. That
- seemed to take some of the pressure off. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is to
- edit it in ASCII mode or to disable the lingua mode. You can do the
- latter at the command line. When you ca your file up, type ca/x. The
- /x switch turns off the lingua. Make your keyboard reassignments and
- then store it with the command st/x. Copy the edited file to nb.kbd and
- you should be home free. I had a particularly hard time because I was
- making so MANY reassignments of commands. At least thirty. I found to
- my dismay that you can't really muck with the number/arrow keys. They
- have all sorts of pathways in Lingua that get screwed up if you try to
- replace them with commands (I have always used the old Wordstar Control
- commands for editing and this way I can type at breakneck speed but NB4
- put the Font Pool and most of the Lingua Keyboard toggles in my
- customary editing spaces, so I tried to exchange them with the number
- arrow keys which I never use). For instance, when I tried to replace
- 7/Home with ov,l,r (return to European keyboard) and 9/PgUp with ov,l,g
- (invoke Greek keyboard), I could get into the Greek but I couldn't go
- back to European! In the greek keyboard, 7/home was "home." So I put
- ov,l,r on Ctrl 26 (=), and I could get back all right, but when I opened
- a menu window, I couldn't get the gray arrow keys to function. I still
- haven't figured out why that is; in changing the number/arrow keys, I
- somehow confused the operation of the other edit keys, but when I
- restored their original function to them in the default keyboard, all
- the other editing operations, including the new ones I'd given to ctrl
- e, ctrl d, etc., worked splendidly with the menu windows. Beats me.
-
- In the meantime, if you don't have Lingua, you might not have any of
- these problems. If you DO have Lingua, you can edit your nb.kbd file
- and the nblingua.kbd file as long as you invoke the disable Lingua
- command with /x in calling and storing your file.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Sarah Higley
- duce
-