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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:06:36 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE 1.4.5
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
 
> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Num Lock OFF:
> > Gray 6 => ASCII 0 and SCAN just like before.
> > Shift + Gray 6 => ASCII 6 ?!!!!!!!
> > 
> > If course command.com behaves like the current RHIDE 1.4.5
> > so I don't know if this behavior is a bug, and is this case
> > the bug is in the BIOS.
> 
> This is how BIOS had always worked.  Whether this is a bug or a
> feature is open to interpetation.  (E.g., since 6 is printed above the
> arrow on the key, you could see it as a shifted character.)

Yes, that's why I say "fixed", because the user spects a different behavior and 
it needs to be twisted.
 
> BIOS keyboard handling is a hodge-podge of special cases like this.
> For example, some key combinations don't produce anything, like
> "Ctrl-/", I don't know why.  Emacs has some 750 lines of code in it,
> just to handle all this mess in a reasonable way.

Yes I know, currently I'm shipping a small (and totally optional) TSR with the 
editor to get some combinations like Ctrl+any number. The TSR needs only 430 
bytes of base memory and works very well.
 
> > Anyways, the new code traps the Shift+Key==Number and remaps
> > it, I think it will produce the desired effect.
> 
> It might be a good idea to let the user choose the behavior of the
> keypad keys, with and without NumLock, especially if RHIDE and the
> editor support binding keys to certain functions.

Yes I agree.

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