From: Rowland McDonnell (rowland.mcdonnell@physics.org)
Date: 9 Mar 01, 21:05 EST
From: Rowland McDonnell <rowland.mcdonnell@physics.org> Subject: Re: Search/replace string entering problem >I'm making no headway with Rowland's problem with <opt><cmd>'e'. I >can't even reproduce it, despite using his AlphaPrefs folder. I don't >know whether it's an OS 9.1 issue, a Brit keyboard issue, or a >Rowland issue 8^). > >If anybody else would care to take a stab at it (I don't have any >further time), I can send you the AlphaPrefs folder. I think I owe the Alphatcl lists an apology and Jon Guyer a beer or three. The problem is not OS 9.1, Brit keyboard, or even a `Rowland' thing (<evil grin> I finally found myself a decent shrink on Wednesday - yep, I really am an official looney) It's a PGP 6.5.8 thing - and did I mention I had PGP installed? I did not, did I? So humble apologies for that ommission. Just a couple of minutes ago, I unthinkingly hit cmd-opt-e in TeX mode to do the enter replace string thing, and a PGP box popped up (never seen *that* actually appear before - just strange flickerings and an inexplicable selection in my Alpha text editing window). Clearly PGP has global keybindings to activate various functions, one of them is cmd-opt-e (I checked this), and that clash screws up Alpha. For a short term fix, I've deactivated the PGP menu in Alpha (I've not got a lot of use for it with Alpha, it must be said, so this isn't a problem for me). A more useful solution involves changing the PGP keybindings to avoid this clash - easily done in PGP Tools, Edit->Prefs->Menu which clearly shows opt-cmd-e as the keybinding for encryption by default. I expect I'll do that when I've had a think about what I want to do with the things (maybe deactivate all the PGP keybindings, since I'm unlikely to remember them). Even so, I would have expected Alpha to at least *know* about its own keybindings in TeX mode (even if they don't work properly due to this clash), since they are supposed to be set, and my experience shows that cmd-opt-e doesn't get bound to enter replace string when switching to TeX mode with PGP Menu active in Alpha and opt-cmd-e being the PGP keybinding for encrypt. Anyone got any thoughts? Rowland. _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers