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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comments on the A2000
Message-ID: <1427@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 18:12:49 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1427
Posted: Tue Mar 10 18:12:49 1987
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In article <4410004@hpcvcd.HP> charles@hpcvcd.HP (Charles Brown) writes:
>Correct me if I am wrong...  From reading the hardware reference
>manual, I got the impression that the CAPS key is treated
>differently.

Speaking of the CAPS key, is it possible to configure a 'keymap' such that
when you are in CAPS LOCK the shift key will cause alpha keys to generate
LOWER CASE?  The IBM PC and several terminals I've used support this feature,
and I've found since using the Amiga that I use it fairly often (you notice
how often when it dosen't work anymore).

And while I'm at it, there's one other gripe I was hoping 1.2 would fix and
didn't.  I'll quite often be wandering through volumes of floppy disks 
looking for something, doing a 'cd df1:' followed quickly by a 'dir', and
find that keystrokes in my 'dir' command are lost because the system has
the 'no disk in DF1:' requester on screen, the system not yet realizing
there IS a disk in the drive.  I then have to wait for the
message to go away before I can continue typing as obviously my input
was redirected (in mid-type-stream no less) to the requester, which
dosen't have a text-input gadget anyway.  I realize this may imply a 
special case requester that dosen't steal away the input stream, but
the way it is now really interferes with the wonderful 'type ahead' feature
we've all grown to know and love.  When requesters are popping up and
'stealing away' your typeahead, it makes for a somewhat confusing and usually
useless interchange.

Keith Doyle
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