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From: dmb@cscwam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Weird Keyboard Behavior with Gulam when Typing Quickly [also Elvis]
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.184443.26162@wam.umd.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 18:44:43 GMT
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I've been using Gulam for quite some time and started using Elvis a few
months ago.  The problem is that when I type certain pairs of capital
letters very quickly Gulam seems to convert them to function key scan
codes.  E.g., I type "MI" quickly and Elvis gives me "M#<s>f3I".  This
happens quite frequently, probably because I never actually learned to
touch-type, but rather acquired a sort of "burst-mode" method, the
eventual evolution of several-finger hunt-and-peck.  (What you get for
learning to program at age 9, I guess.)

Anyway, I traced the problem to Gulam.  Try typing "MI" on the command
line, and Gulam will say "Mark set" or something like that, as though
you typed F3.  (I suppose it could be something in the AUTO folder as
well, but since I know Gulam replaces the keyboard handler I am
assuming it's its fault.)

Does anyone know how I can fix this?  Is there some way to turn off
Elvis' expansion of Shift-F3 into #<s>f3?  It's driving me crazy!  And
I really don't want to go back to LeVee (32K file limit), or STevie, since
I otherwise like Elvis a lot.  At the least, can I get source to Elvis
and compile out the function key support?

Thanks all,

Dave Baggett
dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net