Subject: Re: PC Pico enhancement

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 14:13:16 -0800 (PST)

John,

Unfortunately the meanings of those keys are not clearly defined on 
non-PC keyboards.  Many keyboards just send a NULL for both of them...

--DLM

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On Mon, 31 Jan 1994, John Stumbles wrote:

> I keep finding myself using Control with the left- and right-arrow keys to
> try to get around: this is pretty standard key-binding in PC editors -
> could it be implemented in PICO? 
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From: Elmar Kurgpold <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 14:59:26 -0800 (PST)

Maybe so, but y'all managed to stick in ^Space, to skip *ahead* a word at 
a time.  I've asked about this before-- are there plans to add a "skip a 
word backwords" keystroke?  Just for us impatient editors... :-)  Pardon 
my key-mapping ignorance, but would the keys control-< and control-> be 
possible to use?  (Oh no, another keystroke change request!!!)

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From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 12:27:16 GMT

> non-PC keyboards.  Many keyboards just send a NULL for both of them...

Sorry if I wasn't clear that I'm only asking for this in the PC version of
Pico - I know the mapping of cursor keys varies widely amongst terminal
emulators and there's not much you can do about that :-( 

John Stumbles                                       [email-masked]
University of Reading                                              0734 318435
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK
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> On Mon, 31 Jan 1994, I (John Stumbles) wrote:
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:43:24 -0800 (PST)

Elmar and John,

these are reasonable requests, and we will certainly keep them in mind. 
The problem is that we have far more good suggestions than we have keys
available.  We also want to be very careful that the keys we define are
generally available on all platforms.  We have already cut the margin
pretty close with some of our current choices, e.g. ^O, ^J, ... 

Thanks for the suggestions!

--DLM