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Re: tbird hot keys.

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On 8/29/24 23:03, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 25 Aug 2024 at 10:10:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> 
>>> So "some" shortcuts can be [...] disabled, but it doesn't tell you
>>> how. But maybe if there is a particular hotkey that's causing a
>>> problem, someone else might have had the same problem and written
>>> an add-on you can look for?
>>
>> Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but
>> all the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all.
>> Sometimes I can recover with some undo's.  Or the message goes away,
>> and half an hour later I notice there is an unsent msg in the outbox,
>> and it might be the disappeared msg, but not always. About 50% of the
>> time it might be a resurrection/read msg dated months ago.  This
>> problem has survived 3 keyboards(this particular one is wired [ … ]
> 
> One course of action would be to use an add-on like exteditor,
> by which you can use an editor of choice for composing your emails.
> Obviously an editor without this SelectAll hotkey facility would be
> preferable, like emacs for example. I wonder whether it would let
> you use gedit (emails are always small files) or geany, which
> I think you've used in the past.

geany yes, its solid as a rock, gedit has been removed from any system I 
find it on after an install since way before wheezy. Its scrambled a 
machines config file once too often. Rewriting a .hal file for linuxcnc 
is not trivial. Once might be my typo, twice makes me pay attention, 4 
time it sentenced me to rewrite an 800 line config from scratch, but I 
first found an editor that just worked. That was geany. Or on arms, 
nano.  Maybe in the ensueing 15+ years gedit has been fixed but I've not 
seen any discussion indicating gedit has been fixed, IDK & IDC. it 
screwed me over 4 times, each time costing me a dead or wild machine for 
several days. That violated my 3 strikes=out rule & I go hunting with rm..
> 
> [PS to Gene: just wondered whether you meant to reply only to
> me on the subject of screen locking, rather than to the list]
> 
This should go to the list.

> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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tbird hot keys. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-25 01:00 +0200
  Re: tbird hot keys. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-25 16:20 +0200
    Re: tbird hot keys. Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-25 20:10 +0200
      Re: tbird hot keys. eben@gmx.us - 2024-08-27 05:00 +0200
    Re: tbird hot keys. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-30 05:10 +0200
      Re: tbird hot keys. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-30 06:40 +0200
      Re: tbird hot keys. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-30 07:10 +0200

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