From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: tabs in Windoze In-Reply-To: <0GX8009HZ4HF6A@smtp2.clear.net.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:29:08 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a662da1c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. > -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------