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#35 not Alt-P (paragraph hotkey) in EDIT

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2022-06-26
2006-08-09
Anonymous
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I think that this hotkey in EDIT should be removed,
becouse accidently pressed (in polish version of MS DOS
7.x ALt-P is hotkey for Files menu translated into
polish word Pliki) reorganize completely edited text.
It is very annoying especially while editing fdauto.bat
and config.sys!!!

Discussion

  • Robert Riebisch

    Robert Riebisch - 2020-03-19

    Alt+P hotkey is still present in FreeDOS 1.3rc2 EDIT 0.9a.
    I think, because of i18n, we should avoid Alt+letter hotkey combinations at all.
    There's also Alt+X to exit EDIT.

    What alternatives?
    Ctrl+P is already in use.
    MS-DOS EDIT is no inspiration here, as it doesn't support "paragraph reforming" and doesn't have a hotkey for exiting.
    How about the Windows-like Alt+F4 for exiting and Ctrl+R for reform(att)ing?

     
  • Aitor Santamaría Merino

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