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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: User Key question
Message-ID: <2862e4f6:3527.3comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 06:40:07 GMT
References: <9106202049.AA603944@nike.calpoly.edu> <1991Jun21.184102.20088@nntp
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Malcolm G Gaylord writes:

> I am trying to reassign the curser (up,down,left,right) keys via the
> user keys.  What I want to accomplish is to be able to use the editor
> in the alpha mode and still have access to the curser keys with out
> unlocking the alpha mode.

It can be done, but consider this.  If you reassign the cursor movement
keys to the alpha keyboard, you lose K, P, Q and R (or whatever four
keys you assign the cursor keys to).  Since it takes two keystrokes to
leave USER mode (to recover these letters), but it only takes one
keystroke to leave ALPHA mode (to recover the cursor keys), the default
arrangement is the more efficient one.

--  Joseph K. Horn  --  Peripheral Vision, Ltd.  --