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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:31:50AM -0500, Scott Klement wrote: > > > On 6 Apr 2000, Carey Evans wrote: > > > Most of it was fixed. But DFU has never worked AFAIK, and the cursor > > position on a screen interrupted by a break message still resets to > > the first field. > > > > I'll confirm this... the cursor positioning never worked in DFU. I dont > think it ever worked when resuming from a break message, either. > > Also, somewhere along the line the "END" key started behaving differently. > If I'm in SEU (for example) and press END on a line that I have NOT > changed, it will move the cursor to the last non-blank space in the field. > (Or actually the first blank after the last non-blank space) > > But, if I've made changes to a line of source code, it goes all the way to > end of the line (which is the end of that field) rather than just to the > end of what has been typed. > > And thats a pain :) Now I still have to use the arrow keys to position > the cursor, which takes WEEKS! (Okay, it only takes a second or two, but > still drives me nuts) > There was some discussion at one point about whether the correct behavior was to go to the end of the field or the position after first non-null position (counting from the right). I forget what the consensus was, but it certainly shouldn't behave _that_ way! I can't remember which way it should behave, tho. It was one of those things where you remember that the way it should be was counter-intuitive, then you can't remember if the way you are now thinking is counter-intuitive, or just counter-intuitive because you're used to the other way <g> That was apparently before the list archives. > -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice +--- | This is the LINUX5250 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to LINUX5250@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to LINUX5250-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to LINUX5250-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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