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Article #73Re: Problems with SET GOLD KEY
From: David C. Pheanis
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:40
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:40
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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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Newsgroups: vmsnet.tpu Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!asuvax!ennews!envmsa.eas.asu.edu!pheanis From: pheanis@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (David C. Pheanis) Subject: Re: Problems with SET GOLD KEY Message-ID: <9NOV199213402737@envmsa.eas.asu.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Sender: news@ennews.eas.asu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ References: <1992Nov8.053338.382@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:40:00 GMT Lines: 24