| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 880.1 | | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | Days of Mackerel and Flounder | Fri Sep 04 1987 09:32 | 17 |
| Building something such as this into the tag translator could cause
trouble. First of all, all of the tag defns contain non-printing
characters that are filtered during the post-translate stage. (<ctrl/t>
beomes \) Also, I have applications which require that I be able to
send non-printing characters through the tag translator. I've had
enough trouble ducking the post-translator.
A rather simple tpu or scan procedure could be written as an
independent tool for users who have this problem with their keyboards
or software.
BTW, I've heard of that problem of the stray text appear in a file,
but I've not been able to reproduce it. Did it occur with edt or
some other editor?
kh
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| 880.2 | wear and tear | VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER | | Fri Sep 04 1987 09:56 | 12 |
| I get stray text in my files all the time because there is a noisy
line somewhere between my terminal and VAXUUM across the hall.
If I hold down any key it will deposit some junk. Here's a sample:
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM[[CMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I wrote a row of M's and then ran the cursor back and forth across
it until the junk appeared in the middle. Some days when I log
in the line to VAXUUM is fine.
My little diesel truck is burning a quart of oil every 800 miles,
and my right knee complains now and then from overuse...
Things wear out.
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| 880.3 | | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | Days of Mackerel and Flounder | Fri Sep 04 1987 11:06 | 7 |
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> MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM[[CMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
What represents a stuck key to you could be, for another writer, an
expression of delight after eating a chocolate chip cookie (note
the polite hiccough near the middle).
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| 880.4 | I'm not alone! | ALIEN::BELMAN | | Fri Sep 04 1987 11:12 | 7 |
| I get odd characters in my files, too -- usually it is a
semicolon(;) or an equal sign (=). This happens when I
am using EDT, and only when I'm DECnetting to VAXUUM from
my VAXstation II/RC. (The old VT100 is fine.) It happens
when I'm using ANY arrow key: up, down, sideways, whatever.
I have learned to go slowly, as it seems to happen when
I hold the arrow keys down.
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| 880.5 | EDT arrow keys are trouble makers | IJSAPL::KLERK | Theo de Klerk | Sat Sep 05 1987 17:44 | 11 |
| Re .1:
As the other replies already suggest, it is the EDT editor that
usually causes the problem and almost always it's the arrow keys
(any which way) inserting <esc>[A-D . The errors are mostly
created by people who know the command EDIT/EDT but never bothered
learning the keypad functions...
The workaround small program is indeed what I made myself.
Theo
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| 880.6 | spurious characters with EVE, too | DECWET::HUNT | Liz Hunt | Tue Sep 08 1987 20:51 | 7 |
| re: .5
I'm using EVEplus and the EDT keypad emulator on EVE and I still
get spurious equal signs (=) when I use the up and down arrows,
no matter what the speed. The problem occurred more frequently
with EDT, but I do still get some of the same behavior with EVE
editors.
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