Conference csc32::consolemanager

1360.0. "Definition of ESCAPE and EXIT keystrokes for C3" by FINDER::TITCOMBER () Tue Aug 20 1996 04:16

    Hopefully this is a quick one!

    I have a customer who is trying to change the keystrokes for ESCAPE and
    EXIT for both the C3 interface and the CONSOLE command line.

    The default key for ESCAPE is CTRL/G and for EXIT is CTRL/E.  The
    customer wants to swap these two over (i.e. ESCAPE=CTRL/E &
    EXIT=CTRL/G).

    Redefining the keys for the command line CONSOLE CONNECT is fairly
    straightforward using the CONSOLE$MONITOR_INIT.DAT file.  He uses

    	SET ESCAPE_KEY CTRL_I
    	SET EXIT_KEY CTRL_J
    	SET ESCAPE_KEY CTRL_E
    	SET EXIT_KEY CTRL_G

    If the first two lines are not included, one of the two functions
    becomes CTRL/@.  Could this be because you cannot have two duplicate
    definitions at any point in time?

    Anyway, the customer is fairly happy that he can get things working for
    the command line interface using CONSOLE$MONITOR_INIT.DAT, but is not
    having much success for the C3 interface.

    He is trying to change the key definitions using the following
    procedure:

    1. Change C3 mode button to "Edit"
    2. Click MB3 on system icon & select "Modify"
    3. Click on key to be defined (e.g. ESCAPE), move to "CTRL_E" and
       release button
    4. Click on "OK" to make change
    5. Change C3 mode button back to "Interactive"
    6. Use "Save" in "Options" menus to save changes

    However he goes about doing this, he is unable to achieve what he is
    after.  After making the changes either ESCAPE or EXIT becomes CTRL/@. 
    he has tried a two stage approach - first defining them as CTRL/I &
    CTRL/J, saving and restarting the C3, then then setting to CTRL/E and
    CTRL/G.  Again this results in one of the definitions being CTRL/@.

    Can anybody offer any advice or suggestions?  If this is expected
    behaviour, is it documented anywhere?

    Thanks in advance,

    Rich
    

Rich,

    while not addressing the problems with redefining the keys in C3, note
1287 does explain some related stuff about C3 and the initialisation file.

Hope this helps,
Ross