Re: [StrongED] StrongED hijacking shift up/down keys

[John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Graute  wrote

> In message <2a46e3d653.iyojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Is there a way to prevent StrongED from grabbing the Shift+up and down
>> arrow keys when another application has the window focus?

> Shift+Up and Down are located in the Global KeyList in BaseMode. Move
> them to the main KeyList and they'll only be acted upon when StrongED
> has the input focus.

> Here's how (I'll assume you have StrongMode installed):

>  - Open the BaseMode ModeFile by Ctrl-Adjust click on the iconbar icon.
>  - Click Select on the LoF icon to list the various ModeFile sections
>  - In the LoF, click on the line 'KeyList Global'
>  - Locate the lines s-Up and s-Down. Select them and copy to clipboard.
>    Then comment them out by prefixing with '#'. Add a comment explaining
>    why.
>  - In the LoF. click on the line 'KeyList', this is the main KeyList.
>  - Copy the lines from the clipboard to the main KeyList, near the end
>    seems most appropriate as that's where the other Up and Down lines
>    are. Here too add a comment explaining why.
>  - Save the ModeFile (to UserPrefs if asked for). StrongED should not
>    claim s-Up and s-Down any more when it doesn't have input focus.

Thanks Fred.

John

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