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IDE: Every time I enter ¡ the | goes to the end of the line
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:42 am
by Trond
When I try to enter a ¡ or ¿ using Alt+0161/Alt+0191 the cursor goes to the end of the line! Quite annoying.
Re: IDE: Every time I enter ¡ the | goes to the end of the l
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:49 pm
by PB
> When I try to enter a ¡ or ¿ using Alt+0161/Alt+0191 the cursor goes to the end of the line
For what it's worth: I can't reproduce that here.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:17 pm
by Trond
Does the character appear? This does not happen with NumLock enabled but then there is annoying blue light and I can't type the characters anyways. I am using a laptop keyboard, by the way.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:32 pm
by PB
> This does not happen with NumLock enabled
I was trying with NumLock on, yes, which is why it worked for me.
To quote the help file for "Character Map" (bold emphasis is mine):
[...] open the document and position the insertion point where you want the
special character to appear. Then, with NUM LOCK on, hold down the ALT
key while using the number pad keys to type the Unicode character value.
So there you have it. Without NumLock on you can't type ALT+0161 etc.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:45 pm
by Trond
PB wrote:So there you have it. Without NumLock on you can't type ALT+0161 etc.
That's weird, I have triple checked it now and if NumLock is
enabled, then no character appears. When NumLock is
disabled I can do Alt+0191 and so on.
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:08 am
by PB
So you're saying it's doing the OPPOSITE of the Windows help file? Very weird.
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:32 am
by Dare
FWIW, every so often over the last couple of days my CAPSLOCK key has reversed itself. Suddenly I was typing in caps. When tapping the CAPSLOCK key the CAPSLOCK light went on and everything acted as though it hadn't (lowercase default). It just toggled itself. Tapping the key again turned off the light and turned on the caps.
A reboot sorts it.
This appears to have started since the last auto-update for windows on XP-pro. At least that is the only thing I can think of that may have an impact, outside of some spec of dust or something inside the keyboard itself.
No NUMLOCK issues here, but maybe something similar?
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:07 am
by Trond
PB wrote:So you're saying it's doing the OPPOSITE of the Windows help file? Very weird.
Yes, and I confirm that it's doing the opposite of the Norwegian Windows help file as well.