Ann, what I can say about block markers and erasing them, if you do a B chord Z, you'll erase all block markers. I've asked this question about the clipboard several times but the clipboard seems to be a mystery. Good luck!
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ann K. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:19:12 -0400 >Subject: [Braillenote] odd occurrance >Hi all, >I had a weird one happen yesterday, and I think I know why. Here's >what happened, as close as I can reproduce it. >1. I had a fairly long file, say 8 to 10 pages. I was editing it. >2. At one point I began to mark a block, preparing to move it. I had > placed the top-of-block marker and was moving the cursor down to > mark the bottom, when I realized that the top-of-block marker was > wrong, it had been placed in the wrong place. >3. Being conditioned as I am, I used space with E to exit, thinking > that doing this would erase the marker which had been incorrectly > placed. >4. The BN paused about forty-five seconds then ran through a bunch of > things with the Braille display clicking madly. >5. When I looked, my whole file was gone, poof, just gone, the whole > blessed file just gone into the ether. >I tried exiting out to the main menu and reloading the file, still >blank, nada. I was, to put it mildly, irritated. Fortunately, I had >a second copy of this file which I had exported to Word. So I loaded >up that file and saved it as a KWB file. I'm beginning to wonder if >the clipboard ate my file by mistake. I can't prove it because I >continued my editing job and the clipboard has long since been >flushed. However, I'm just wondering if this has happened to anyone >else. I have heard people complaining that they've lost whole files >before, and I'd be curious to know if this happened while using the >block commands. I'm wondering if, when I discovered my file had >disappeared, I'd done a paste command, if my file would have >obediently come out of the clipboard? Thoughts? Comments? >Ann P. >-- > Ann K. Parsons >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp >Skype: Putertutor >"All that is gold does not glitter. >Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
