Re: [9fans] OT: tabs in Windoze

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

Actually it has to do with the way Windows does 'focus'. Windows uses the
tab as a select key. Depending on what 'mode' your Winblows box is in the
tab can take you from window to window, or if you're focus is in a given
window then tab will take you from one icon select tool to another within
that window.

Try an escape and a lot of luck.


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Andrew Simmons wrote:

>
> > So I'm using drawterm to access Plan 9 from Windoze.
> > Often I am able to use the "tab" key normally, but
> > sometimes 'doze decides that when I hit "tab" I really
> > want to switch windows (which is _never_ what I want).
> > ie a different window gets pulled to the foreground.
> >
> > Does anyone know what the cause of this perverted
> > behaviour is, and how to get rid of it?
> >
>
> Impossible to say given the information presented, pretty much as it would
> be if I posted a query saying "Plan 9 doesn't work on my system, does anyone
> know why?".
>
> I've never seen this behaviour myself. Does it only happen when you are
> using drawterm, or does it happen when, which is admittedly unlikely, you
> are using a Windows machine for some other purpose? Does it affect all
> running applications randomly, or only the same set of applications? Is the
> problem repeatable on other machines running the same version of Windows?
> And what version of Windows would that be? (95, 98, NT 3.5, NT 4, 2000, XP,
> Windows Does Dallas etc etc?). What service pack?
>
> Speaking of service packs, I think Microsoft have just broken new ground
> with XP by introducing the concept of a beta version of a service pack.
>


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