Oops my bad! I only tested it with EDIT loaded but not with an open document. Doesn't work.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:35 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > Does that work in EDIT with a document open? > > If so, is that on real hardware or a virtual machine? > > I have never had that key combo work in Edit on perhaps a dozen different > old computers. > > > On 3/5/2016 4:18 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > R ALT-X works for me on a 2014 Acer Aspire E5 Laptop. > I wonder if the root of this issue is that there no longer seems to be a > keyboard standard (as we knew it in DOS); where TSRs were the norm. > > I have several TSR programs connected to either Left Shift or Left CTRL > and my favorite TSR (PC-OUTLINE) with a <CTRL /> only works in DOS 3.31 or > below. All I get now is an echo of the key combination with that one. All > of my other TSR programs are functional except Collins dictionary and I > have a work-around for it with WPShell and WP60. > > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 2:26 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > >> Ever since I moved from MS-DOS to FreeDOS years ago, I have been annoyed >> by some R-Alt key behavior. (This is on a US ANSI-layout keyboard.) >> >> The classic illustration was in Edit, where I couldn't R-Alt+X to exit. >> >> But my touch-typing technique for a L-Alt+X would be left index finger >> on L-Alt, plus left ring finger on X. Nearly impossible!! Other key >> combinations were awkward at best. >> >> And as I noted in another post recently, the mouse pointer in Edit is >> nearly invisible on the machine I'm currently working with, so >> mouse-instead-of-keyboard wasn't a decent solution either. >> >> But after another dive into this issue, I now notice this: >> >> - Even in Edit, R-Alt acts like L-Alt with no document open. >> - In SetEdit, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. >> - In FreeDOS Help, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. >> - In DOOM, R-Alt acts like L-Alt. >> >> I'm now thinking that in DOS, the kernel's keyboard input method >> probably consists of rather simply reading the BIOS keyboard buffer, and >> absent the intervention of a running DOS keyboard driver, it is probably >> up to each program to decide how to process key combinations. >> >> If that's the case, then it's probably just FreeDOS Edit (and perhaps a >> few other programs) that will annoy me this way. >> >> Can anyone confirm or deny this understanding? >> >> [By the way, I also looked at running KEYB with a customized US.KEY >> layout, but it looks like US.KEY only customizes a handful of keys and >> key combinations, leaving the rest to whatever the default keyboard >> handling is. To make R-Alt act like L-Alt across the board, I would >> have to create MANY lines in the k858 look-up table, specifying what >> happens for R-Alt+A, R-Alt+B, R-Alt+C, etc. And it might be that >> program handling of key combinations could still override that -- I >> don't know.] >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing > listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >
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