Subject: Re: Keyboard behavior in Pico
To: Jeffrey Ohlmann <jaohlma@wcnet.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/08/1999 18:56:45
Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
> All-
> 
> I've searched high and low in the Pico/Pine documentation and can't find
> anything that addresses my problem, so I'm hoping someone here can help.
> 
> The problem is that, in Pico/Pine, pressing "return" does not make a
> linefeed or carriage return, but rather invokes the equivalent of ^J, or
> "justify".  Only by presing "enter" (on the number pad) will make a plain
> carriage return or linefeed.
> 
> What makes this most irritating is that for the first few times I used
> Pico after compiling and installing is that this problem was not present.
> In fact I had recompiled Pico/Pine in an attempt to eliminate the same
> problem.
> 
> I'd would greatly appreciate any thoughts on this; it's a trivial matter,
> to be sure, but deeply annoying nonetheless.

is this in an xterm or on the console (or in dt)?  if it's X, you can
check to see what the X server is getting in the way of keystrokes by
using xev.  you don't do anything strange with your terminal settings, do
you?

later.

colin