Re: does GEM drop keys?

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From: Steve Tynor
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1987 22:29

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In article <1039@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) writes:
>
>close to keeping up with a fast typing speed.  In fact, worst of all, it quite
>often drops keys, which is worse than just spitting out the text long after I
>have typed it.
>
>The keys it most commonly drops are function keys of some sort:  the one I
>most often noticed was "RETURN" -- if you hit RETURN twice in rapid succession,
>you have a 100% guarantee that 1ST_WORD will only get one of them.  Similarly
>if you use the CTRL-ARROW method of moving around by words instead of single
>characters.  If you hold down a CTRL-ARROW for repeat, you will here the key

etc.

I'm having the same problem with the editor (an emacs/GEM hybrid).  I use
RawScanIn to read the command line, and often only get ~60% of what I type.
VERY ANNOYING!  Any ideas?

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