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- From: pheanis@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (David C. Pheanis)
- Subject: Re: Problems with SET GOLD KEY
- Message-ID: <9NOV199213402737@envmsa.eas.asu.edu>
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- Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- References: <1992Nov8.053338.382@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:40:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.053338.382@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>, ldgiltne@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Lawrence Giltner) writes...
- >
- >I read all the postings about the GOLD-KEY definitions and decided to
- >try defining some. I have all the Ctrl keys defined that were not
- >"reserved" by TPU or VMS. So I tried defining Ctrl-X as gold and got no
- >result. So I did a Set NoGold, undefined another key that I had defined
- >(Ctrl-U RESTORE), and defined it as gold. I picked Ctrl-U because it
- >seemed that the default definition of Ctrl-X was Restore and I would
- >learn to use it.
- >
- >Now here is what is funny. Both Ctrl-X and Ctrl-U acted as gold keys.
- >When I did a Set NoGold, both keys did the Erase To The Start Of Line.
- >This happened even when I used the vanilla TPU. Are these two keys tied
- >together somehow?
-
- VMS returns the same code for both ^U and ^X. You don't have a
- problem with TPU; you just managed to pick the two keys that VMS treats as
- (almost) the same, so TPU sees the same key regardless of which one you
- press.
-
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