Gary C Martin wrote: > > > Q2E24 general observation: First key press at ok prompt is dropped > (kept catching me out and making initial typos) not sure if this is > worth a ticket. Here's my guess for what is causing the "loss of first key":
To get to the ok prompt, you have to type to ESC key. That could be interpreted one of two ways: a) Press and immediately release the ESC key or b) Hold down the ESC key until you are sure that OFW recognizes it. In case (b), the keyboard auto-repeats the ESC char so OFW sees N repetitions. The "type ESC to interrupt" handler takes the first one, and the next N-1 repetitions go to the normal OFW command line editor. ESC is a prefix char for editing commands like "delete word" - the editor generally follows EMACS conventions in that respect. ESC-ESC is an unimplemented command, so nothing obvious happens for paired ESC-ESC. But if N-1 is odd, the "left over" ESC puts the line editor in "waiting for the completion character for the ESC prefix" state. So the first printable character you type is taken as the completion of the ESC-<whatever> command. Even if that first character represents a valid editing command, you aren't likely to notice its effect, since the command line is empty at the time, so the editing command has nothing to do - no word to delete, no place to move forward or backward, etc. I never have this problem because I don't hold down ESC, I just type it once. As it turns out, the startup jingle is a good marker for when OFW is ready to accept the ESC - as soon as I hear the jingle start, I reach for the ESC key and type it once. Mitch _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel