On or near 11/16/00 1:30 PM, Michael W. Wellman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> It was added to the System's KCHR resource back when Powerbooks didn't have
> enter keys.
>
> So on the Macintosh, both 'ctrl-c' and 'enter' generate ASCII value 3.
Okay. I stand corrected. As Dan pointed out, Control-M is Return; Control-C
is Enter. At least <that> part of the mystery is solved.
The other part remains: Why does Cmd-Ctrl-C do the same thing as Ctrl-C on
my system and many others--but not everyone's? And Cmd-Ctrl-N does the same
as Ctrl-N, even launching a script whose name ends with "\cN".
Does anyone know if Ctrl-N has some definition in KCHR like Ctrl-M and
Ctrl-C? Perhaps these definitions kick in and ignore other modifier keys? I
just checked with ResEdit, and Ctrl-N <does> have a mapping to Character 14.
It looks to me like the entire alphabet has some Ctrl- definition, as well
as Ctrl--, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-], and Ctrl-\. It starts with ASCII 1 and goes up to
ASCII 30 (decimal)--at least according to the character table displayed by
Tex-Edit-Plus. It looks to me as though it might be wise to be cautious
about using Control characters in keyboard shortcuts, unless we can discover
some factor that is causing the system to ignore the command key modifier.
--
Peace,
Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
A Mac family since 1984
My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
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