Subj : Pressing the Q key
To   : Digital Man
From : Finglonger
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 09:07:26

  Re: Pressing the Q key
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:49 pm

 >   Re: Pressing the Q key
 >   By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm
 > 
 >  > Hi DM,
 > 
 >  > I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when >  > user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way - is >  > that correct?
 > 
 >  > A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to
 >  > reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchrone >  > says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit a key >  > and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing th >  > original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen
 >  > doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just
 >  > curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when press >  > at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?
 > 
 > Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C whil > at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted in JDoes this apply to the '1' key also?  I use that on my menus and notice that itbehaves similar to 'Q' even when not specified.  Is there a way to override
these global keys by any chance, or is that hard coded?

thanks!

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