shiva@apple.com (Kenneth Porter) (11/30/90)
Today while reading something in a textedit app in read-only mode, All of my text windows switched into a state where selecting caused text to be underlined instead of in inverse video. I no longer was able to cut-and-paste properly. Is this some SunView feature that I inadvertantly enabled, or is it a bug? How can I get rid of it without rebooting? I don't know whether this is a generic SunView problem, or whether it is specific to my 386i. Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)
shiva@apple.com (Kenneth Porter) (01/15/91)
I reported this problem a while back (v9i382): > Today while reading something in a textedit app in read-only > mode, All of my text windows switched into a state where > selecting caused text to be underlined instead of in inverse > video. I no longer was able to cut-and-paste properly. Is this > some SunView feature that I inadvertantly enabled, or is it a > bug? How can I get rid of it without rebooting? What is happening is that SunView is going into "secondary selection". The keyboard driver has (erroneously) decided that the Paste key is being held down, presumably because it missed a key-up event. The fix is to run clear_functions (for which there is a man page). I would recommend adding this to your root menu, under "Services->Stop Underlining". According to Guy Harris, The SunView 1 Beginner's Guide (which I don't see in my 386i manual set) mentions secondary selection in the index. Sorry about the late followup. Thanks to: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) bob@psitech.com (Bob Posert) phanes@Eng.Sun.COM (Pamela D. Hanes) mep@inmet.inmet.com (Mark Polhamus) guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris) Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)