On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jason M. Felice wrote:
>
> Sheesh, ignore the list for a few days, and a lot of stuff piles up.
>
> Okay, let me see if I get this all straight:
>
> 1) Enter should be valid in an FER field.
> 2) Arrow keys should be valid in an FER field, and the arrow keys should
> be handled instead of just
> turning off the FER indicator.
> 3) '+' should be valid in a numeric FER field when the FER indicator is
> on, since this is the only
> way to do a Field+ from a standard terminal. '-' should be as well,
> while I'm at it.
> 4) Need a direct keyboard mapping for Field+. Note that Field+ and
> Field Enter behave differently -
> Field Enter does not change the sign of a number-only field (a
> numeric field with a separate sign
> position).
> 5) Issue with Field- always appending a '}'. I'm looking at the code,
> and it's coded as if that
> were intentional. Sheesh, that's pretty weird, I KNOW that's not how
> it's supposed to work
> (Jay goes looking for his `cvsblame' script - Hmm, Mike Madore did
> the original line, but I did
> the shifting of the rest of the field data one cell to the left.
> Weird.)
> 6) And, from looking at the code, Field+ won't change the sign of a
> zone-shifted numeric field back.
> I think it's a moot point, since pressing Field Enter would truncate
> the sign - Bah! Unless it's
> an FER field.
>
> I'll probably get a chance to do all this this evening (no promises).
> It all looks like simple stuff
> that I can handle even though I can't really test it (I'll post a patch
> for others to test).
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
Don't bother... I already have a patch that fixes all of these things,
I'll send it to you. I was just waiting for the test results to come
back... both of the people experiencing this difficulty have now reported
that it works well.
And it works for me, too. :)
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