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From: jhawk@panix.uucp (John Hawkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: questions about hp48
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.172810.6639@panix.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:28:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.054120.18599@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <23398@shlump.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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In <23398@shlump.lkg.dec.com> edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.)) writes:

>In article <1991Jun12.054120.18599@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
>mann@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Shannon Mann) writes:

>>I am concerned about losing
>>the easy accessibility of alpha characters, and notice the object delimiter
>>characters (<< >>, [], etc) are paired. Does this imply some awkward 
>>context-sensitive editing?

>When a delimiter key is pressed, both delimiters are entered.  The
>cursor is positioned between them, so all you have to do is type
>whatever you want inside them and the press the right-arrow to move past
>the closing delimiter.  Typing only one delimiter is achieved by
>entering both and using either backward or forward delete to remove the
>undesired one.

Actually, prefixing the delimiter key with the alpha key will produce
(usually, with some exceptions) a single delimiter.

>				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
>				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
>				edp@jareth.enet.dec.com
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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com