Subj : Pressing the Q key
To   : Finglonger
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 23:43:34

  Re: Pressing the Q key
  By: Finglonger to Digital Man on Tue Feb 18 2025 09:07 am

 >   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?

Nightfox was asking about the Pause ([Hit a key] prompt) - that should have no effect on any of your menus.

The keys for 'Q'uit and 'N'o are set in the text.dat/text.ini files, so they're configurable.
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