[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Keyboard init for help?

tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) (09/22/89)

> Excerpts from official.andrew: 20-Sep-89 Re: Keyboard init for help?
Robert S. Glickstein@and (1225+0)

> I think what you're experiencing is the fact that when Help starts, the
> input focus is in the panels to the right of the text, and not in the
> help text itself.  Apparently, ^S et. al. are not recognized by those
> insets.  If you place the input focus in the text region (by
> left-clicking there somewhere), you will then get the standard text
keybindings, which include ^S et. al.

You're sorta right.  I clicked in the text section, but was unable to
get the input focus there; the cursor jumped about as I clicked the left
mouse button about, however the keys were still dead.

Oddball twist:  Just for kicks, I decided to click in one of the right
panels.  This worked!!  Suddenly, the keyboard started responding.  

So, you're suggestion sorta fixes the problem, but not in an intuitive
way.

Thanks for the help, though.

   - Anthony