Marcel Kilgus writes:

> P Witte wrote:
> > In some older programs I use a different scheme, with F10 stuffing the
> > edited string into the stuffer buffer.
>
> Oh well, so you're already doing exactly the same.
>
> > Those, and any other existing programs that do something similar,
> > will find that they get two copies of the keyboard queue contents.
> > The first copy would hold what iob.edlin thinks is the resultant
> > string (accessed by Alt+Shift+Space or equivalent) while the second
> > would hold what your program knows to be the correct version.
> > Disconcerting, messy and quite unnecessary, methinks.
>
> This I don't really understand. Either you use iob.edlin, in this case
> F10 was useless in the past and now could be filled with some life. Or
> you don't use iob.edlin, then the change doesn't really concern you.

Youre right. I got confused. It shouldnt affect my line editor as I use
iob.fbyt not iob.elin or iob.flin.

As an aside, iob.elin is/was incompatible with the documentation: it doesnt
update the cursor position on return, so it was of no use to me. I asked TT
whether hed fix it but in the end he didnt as he feared it would introduce
incompatibilities with existing programs.

I still think the key should be configurable.

Per

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