Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/02/15:48:06
In article <#3HQhn5F9GA DOT 302 AT upnetnews02 DOT moswest DOT msn DOT net>, DeHackEd
<dehacked72 AT nospam DOT hotmail DOT com> writes
>That's not how edit works. CTRL-P tells it to wait for ANOTHER ctrl-? key.
>Another ctrl-p makes a large triangle pointing right, ctrl-q make the opposite
>direction, ctrl-a makes a smiley face, etc. Alt-007 is self-dependent. It does
>not need ctrl-p and can work from (almost) any text editor or even the DOS
>pormpt.
That's not how edit works :-)
Alt+009 is equivalent to pressing the Tab key. Under Edit, pressing the
Tab key inserts enough spaces to get you to the next tab point.
Therefore, under Edit, Alt+009 inserts enough spaces to get you to the
next tab point.
Ctrl+P, on the other hand, waits for a keypress and inserts, verbatim,
the keypress received. For some reason though Ctrl+P followed by Tab
doesn't work, so you have to use Alt+009 instead.
I just checked this in Windows '95 edit, in a Windows '95 DOS box.
(Perhaps you are using DOS 6.22 EDIT... even I steer clear of *that*...)
--Tom
My real e-mail address is tom AT sunholme DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
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