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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 8/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> > WP51 under dosemu:
> > Alt-F6 is still not usable (it switches me back to the rxvt instead of
> > what it should be doing).  Shift-F6 does nothing.
> 
> I was wrong, Shift-F6 works under xdosemu and dosemu.
> 
> 
> >
> > So WP51 under xdosemu would need some changes to icewm, at the very
> least.
> > But that still would not guarantee that key combinations of WP51 would
> > work under xdosemu.
> 
> In icewm all the Alt-F keys have functions that I don't think I can remap.
> 
> So I tried WP51 in plain dosemu on a VGA screen (because mdacon won't show 
> underlines and VGA can be set to do so).
> 
> Alt-F1 through F4 predictably change vts. 
> Alt-F5 to F10 do nothing at all.
> (Under Xdosemu Alt-F1 to F10 do nothing at all)
> 
> Ctrl-F1 to F10 do the same as plain F1 to F10

It looks like dosemu is not passing keys properly to WP51. You may
need a different emulator. (But dosemu is one of the few which can
work at a console.)

> Are there mouse-free non-X text editors that display with lines wrapping 
> in between words?

Back on the 14th of September, 2004, you wrote:

"I ran across ONE console-based linux wordprocessor, free, but it produced 
proprietary format that no other program could import."

Can you remember what the name of it was? I would like to take a look at
it.

> Sindi
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