Re: can ups be operated from the keyboard?

From: Rod Armstrong (rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 22:07:06 BST

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    John's suggestion of controlling ups via the keyboard is probably a good
idea. There are several approaches. Currently the command line has keyboard
focus unless one is editing in the display or output windows. Perhaps if
the mouse is over the central target region (next, step etc), keyboard
input could be processed by those buttons. Alternatively it could be anywhere
outside the typing line, but this would be more restrictive - it's sometimes
nice to select a string in the display or output windows and 
paste it into the typing line for a search for instance, without having
to move the mouse there. Not sure if the proposed behaviour would best be fixed,
controlled by a widget, typing line command, or X resource. 

As an aside, I noticed that the old command line mode has been broken for 
some time ( ups ups -a ups -nowindow -replay -), though this would be 
easy to fix. It's not really relevent to this though.

Rod

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