Okay, here's a weird one: my X key seems to have stopped functioning. I'm using 1.70 on a machine running XP SP2, but this has been happening for a long time (and on machines running Win2K as well).
When I try to type a capitol X in anything -- the dialogs for copy, move, make dir, etc -- I can't. Shift X doesn't work, nor does hitting the caps lock key make any difference. Nothing happens. It's even this way in the editor! But it's only capitol X, small x works just fine. Using far /p doesn't make any difference either.
I assumed that maybe I had inadvertently created a keyboard macro, but there's nothing in the KeyMacros registry key so that's not it.
At this point I'm at a loss about why this is happening. Any ideas?
The missing X key
on my far-installation the X was used as shortcut for the XLat function. i think you have the same problem.
there two ways how to change this setting:
1.) use "system parameters editor"-plugin. on the hotkeys-handling-panel enter a new hotkey i.e. RWin.
2.) registry-editor: at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Far\XLat the hotkeys stored. change the values like this: (for keyvalues use the macrosyntax)
there two ways how to change this setting:
1.) use "system parameters editor"-plugin. on the hotkeys-handling-panel enter a new hotkey i.e. RWin.
2.) registry-editor: at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Far\XLat the hotkeys stored. change the values like this: (for keyvalues use the macrosyntax)
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Far\XLat]
"CmdLineKey"="RWin"
"AltCmdLineKey"="RWin"
"DialogKey"="RWin"
"AltDialogKey"="RWin"
"EditorKey"="RWin"
"AltEditorKey"="RWin"
"WordDivForXLat"=" !#$%^&*()+|\"=\\[]/@?"
That was it!rob wrote:on my far-installation the X was used as shortcut for the XLat function. i think you have the same problem.
there two ways how to change this setting:
1.) use "system parameters editor"-plugin. on the hotkeys-handling-panel enter a new hotkey i.e. RWin.
2.) registry-editor: at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Far\XLat the hotkeys stored. change the values like this: (for keyvalues use the macrosyntax)
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REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Far\XLat] "CmdLineKey"="RWin" "AltCmdLineKey"="RWin" "DialogKey"="RWin" "AltDialogKey"="RWin" "EditorKey"="RWin" "AltEditorKey"="RWin" "WordDivForXLat"=" !#$%^&*()+|"=\\[]/@?"
All of those keys were set to "X". Once I cleared out those values everything started working the way it should. Thanks.