I have argued much the same, but I have a recollection that the EDIT behavior is by design, with R-Alt (aka AltGr) functioning as a dead key to provide support for the Euro character, etc.
There is an old, unattended bug report on the issue, though it may need rounding out, and in any case some will argue that it's not a bug (which may be why it was unattended): https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/96/ I do appreciate the measure of support for my revised understanding -- that this behavior is due to program design (hopefully rare among programs) rather than some feature of FreeDOS. On 3/8/2016 9:46 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: > With a US keyboard layout, R-Alt and L-Alt are supposed to work exactly the > same way in the vast majority of programs, including EDIT. > > I did a couple of experiments, and in FD-EDIT it doesn't work that way. It's > a bug in the way the program is written. MS-EDIT works just fine. I haven't > looked at the source code for EDIT, but this should be relatively easy to > patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
