Subj : Pressing the Q key
To : Digital Man
From : Finglonger
Date : 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?
