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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:10:08 IST
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- From: G9026163@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA
- Subject: Lingua(?) cursor problem
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- I don't know if this has ever been mentioned since I haven't been on the
- list that long, but here's an ailment that requires a cure. I use Lingua
- with a French Canadian keyboard layout--I find it more convenient for
- accented characters than the CTRL-ALT-[SHIFT]-KEY combination. Occassionally,
- after entering an accented key (doesn't matter what it is), the cursor will
- skip to the beginning of the next line and park itself there. Typing places
- text at the end of the previous line (where it ought to be) and backspacing
- deletes text from the previous line. In other words, although the cursor
- appears in column one of the next line, it acts as though it were in the
- proper place, except when I enter CTRL-BKSPC which has the disastrous effect
- of deleting all but the previous word. I'm not kidding: the entire document
- is erased except one word which appears at column 1 / row 1, the word I
- wanted to delete! A minor problem is the addition of untyped characters
- after entering an accented character. For example, typing / (for e acute)
- may result in the accented e as well as another random character. As far
- as the cursor problem is concerned, I've been unable to do anything to
- cure the problem except close and reopen the document--a tremendous waste
- of time. Suggestions, anyone?
-
- Paul Caron G9026163@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA
- McMaster University
- Hamilton, Ont.
- CANADA
-