🚀 go-pugleaf

Jorge, A "dead" key retains its normal function when struck twice
in succession with no intervening keystroke. Thus, there is no
need to assign the normal function to the ALT-key. A dead key is
created by assigning the {CHAR}var~ function to it. That suspends
all action until the next key is struck. What happens after that
next keystroke is fixed by the {CASE CALL} function, which
assigns different actions depending on the keystroke following
the "dead" key. You write the case calls to include the dead key
itself as one of the cases, and you deliberately make the action
for that key its normal function. For any other key, you make
your own assignment, be it a macro, a string, a special
character, or whatever. You can make as many or as few key
assignments as you want off one dead key. Unassigned keys produce
nothing. Several people have been advocating dead keys for over a
year and led me to pick up on them about six months ago. I now
use them all the time. And I have to say this--The keyboard, with
its ALT-key feature, supplemented by dead key capability, is to
me a much better way to go than the Button Bar of WPWIN. Why
clutter up the screen with a "virtual" keyboard when you have a
real keyboard with such vast capability. Windows already
encroaches on screen space around the edges and in the corners,
and the ruler and button bar just make it worse. I am all for
getting the junk off the screen, and dead keys are all I need to
do just that and still retain easy access to macros and special
features. All hail the clean screen, which WP pioneered in the
first place!


--  
uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!202!114!Howard.Rodgers
Internet: Howard.Rodgers@f114.n202.z1.fidonet.org