Posted on 08/05/2013 7:48:33 PM PDT by citizen
Ah, Emacs...
Most new keyboards, other than the plain basic ones, come with managers, especially the wireless.
I figured someone would ask that :) My droid right now is plugged into a Webtop 100 device, basically it is a 10” screen and a keyboard for your phone. Great for web browsing but the text entry point seems to occasionally move about for no reason.
Hence, the screwy text in my thread title. I had to correct several times to get this reply posted. Sometimes I don’t notice them and my posts get garbled.
Today's computer users are spoiled with "user-friendly" displays and buttons to push.
In the olden days, with state-of-the-art "dumb" terminals such as HP 2645s, you had to know the keyboard shortcuts to do anything worthwhile.
It didn't take me long to learn Ctrl-S to stop the screen from scrolling. Otherwise (in VMS) the "ty" command displayed everything from beginning to end of the file you were hoping to examine. And once the page scrolled past, you couldn't go back to see what you'd missed.
Too true!
G’night all, I’ll check back in the AM for new tips and tricks.
Correction. There was no ‘ty’ command in VMS, or rather the DCL shell of VMS. There was however TYPE command (case insensitive), with a bunch of qualifiers some of which would control how much output you’d see on the screen at a time, etc. With VT terminals there was no scrolling back, of course. Still unsurpassed (DCL is) by any UNIX shell, or the pitiful shell in Windows.
P.S. I forgot to add that you could abbreviate any DCL command to its short unique value, or even define your own symbol (as in UNIX), so in that you are correct, ‘ty’ would be sufficient for the command to work.
Being less than a proficient typist, the shorter the command the less chance of screwing it up.
“ty” worked fine for me most of the time. Eventually, one of the local DEC yokels added a “list” command as an option which was even better. It let you display one page at a time until you hit Ctrl-C which exited the program.
Whew! How keyboard commands have changed over time!
That’s right, what have they done to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Y? I still expect their DCL behavior, dammit!
NityVa, please.
Different strokes . . different folks.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if they one day removed the Esc key from modern keyboards. It’s only useful on rare occasions, and doesn’t do squat if your computer’s screen is frozen. Heck, even ctrl-alt-del doesn’t do what it used to in DOS..
Save for later.
I miss those DEC days of yore.. Pahkah St.. the Mill..
Ah yes, the Nity Vals. They had quite a run in 1919. Probably would have won the regional if quarterback/kicker/bus driver Horace “Tiny” McGee hadn’t pelted a fan with onions.
If Obama had a Ctrl-W..
Interesting. There are times I seem to be typing backwards just as fast as I am typing forwards (correcting mistakes on the fly) and that is one mistake (hitting CTRL-W instead of SHIFT-W) that I have never made, ever.
I guess your hands are just inclined to that mistake for some reason.
Well, there’s some history I didn’t know from the days of the leather helmet and two-way players.
RE keyboard manages
Thanks, I’ll have to look into that for my desk top unit.
It probably won’t help if I’m using the Lapdock 100 keyboard, as the “computer” for it is my 4g phone.
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