Re: LW 8.1 keyboard issue
"Greg Menke (as gregm32768 at comcast dot net)" <[email protected]>
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Requirements to enter a lot of numbers haven't changed since the 80's. For me sometimes its spreadsheets, sometimes its transcribing measurements of one kind or another into a file and the numeric keypad saves time and errors. Sometimes its just entering numbers into a calculator, so the arithmetic keys around the keypad are likewise helpful. I wouldn't mind if the keypads had a thru f so I could enter hex numbers more easily. I only buy keyboards without numeric keypads when they are built into a laptop. On 3/8/2025 5:25 PM, Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) wrote: > This is the answer. But it's just so weird that keyboards with number > keypads are sold with general-purpose machines. Perhaps it's because > really a lot of people spend really a lot of time typing numbers into > spreadsheets, which itself is weird in 2025. But I suspect that, in > fact, it's all VisiCalc's fault: PCs only existed because of VisiCalc, > and so PCs, in 1980, really needed keyboards which made typing lots of > numbers easy. > >> On 8 Mar 2025, at 14:46, David McClain (as dbm at >> refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> I have my number keypad Enter explicitly mapped for myself, to become >> an Evaluate Defun. You have that choice. >> >> (editor:bind-key "Evaluate Defun" "Kp-Enter") >> >> >> >>> On Mar 8, 2025, at 06:51, Paul Werkowski (as pw at snoopy dot qozzy >>> dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> So, it seems that, on my Windows PC, that the "Enter" key to the >>> right of <" '> , is handled by the Listener as usual but the "Enter" >>> key to the right of keypad "3" visually acts the same (#\return >>> #\newline or is it #\newline #\return) but no action happens. >>> >>> The editor treats both the same. As does every other app on this >>> computer. >>> >>> The keyboard is a standard Logitech Solar Powered K750. >>> >>> Anyone else seeing this? >>> >>> PW >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html >>