Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduou

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduou

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going any

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: Back in the Windows 9x era, I'm pretty sure that a command window was designed not to be too easily killed (presumably lest one lose work, possibly lest one leave an orphan process around), so I would not be surprised if alt-F4 did not kill it. If

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: I researched and found a few reports complaining about not being able to close cmd.exe with alt-f4. I found no report of being able to close cmd.exe shell with alt-f4. I think Paul has a very talented machine. Boy, you sure wouldn't know it from its general performance! :

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
Ed Gatzke wrote: This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X. I found a workaround. http://www.autohotkey.com/download/ AutoHotKey is

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: There is a python.exe file in the same directory as the lyx.exe executable. Python opens what looks like a cmd.exe window that you can't close with Alt-F4 either. I wonder if lyx.exe is somehow running in a python shell? No. LyX runs Python scripts for various things, but Ly

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I have

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ed Gatzke wrote: So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run mos

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygw

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-09 Thread Ed Gatzke
Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Harris wrote: > > > >> > >> I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe > >> My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. > >> > > > > Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed wh

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-08 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rat

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Win

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Harris
John Ward wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other

Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread John Ward
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 do

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-06 Thread Steve Harris
Ed Gatzke wrote: Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be remapped). Could you have one installed? ( /Paul Are yo

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-06 Thread Ed Gatzke
> > Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something > going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that > can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be > remapped). Could you have one installed? ( > > /Paul > > Are you

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in mycua.bindbut M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me...

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-05 Thread Ed Gatzke
>> >> I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including >> C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib > > My installation has a C:\Aspell\dict folder that the Aspell installer > created. That is where I park dictionaries. I reinstalled using the new installer and

RE: aspell on XP

2006-07-05 Thread GATZKE, EDWARD P
rg Subject: Re: aspell on XP Ed Gatzke wrote: > I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on > Windows XP. > > I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell LyX 1.4.1 needs aspell version 0.60.x. > I have i

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell LyX 1.4.1 needs aspell version 0.60.x. I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, inclu

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and

aspell on XP

2006-07-03 Thread Ed Gatzke
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib I h