Posted by Els on 10/12/36 11:25

rf wrote:

> Els wrote:
>> rf wrote:
>
> [language input]
>
>>> What *was* the hotkey (for future reference)?
>>
>> I can't be sure - I just saw something with the word 'shift' in it and
>> deleted it, but looking at the options, it was probably alt-shift to
>> change the language, and ctrl-shift to change the keyboard.
>
> Hmmm. I guess we'll never know then. Ctrl + Shift *is* a nasty combination
> though. I can see how you might often activate that by mistake, slip of the
> little finger.

Worse. Ctrl-shift-Z is how I get text back after having used Ctrl-Z
right here in this window I'm typing in now, and Ctrl-shift-R is how I
start recording a macro in TextPad.

> Nasty things these hot keys. I usually (if I use them) choose something that
> must be activated with two hands, like left-Alt + right-shift. You *can't*
> hit that one by mistake, a bit like Ctrl Alt Del :-)

Yup.

> Of course though the keyboard language hotkeys don't allow such things :-(

The ones to get straight to a particular setting do. For those you
have to use either alt or ctrl, combined with shift, and a digit.

> <aside>
> Was writing/constructing/debugging some new software/firmware/hardware the
> other day, on the notebook. Required me to press Ctrl Mouse left button
> (that takes care of one hand) and then press a certain button on my hardware
> device (two hands used up) and *at the same time* press the insert key. What
> to do. The only solution was to ask the good wife to pause her trains and
> press the offending key for me. Red faces etc. Hot key combination now fixed
> :-) Wife back at her railway empire :-)
> </aside>

LOL!

>> This also explains why I have experienced two different Spanish
>> settings - there were 4 different keyboard settings in the list, of
>> which one Dutch language - Spanish keyboard, and one Spanish (Mexico)
>> language - Latin-American keyboard.
>> My regular setting is Dutch language - USA keyboard.
>
> So what is this fixtion with Spanish, expecially the one so bloody close to
> the U S of A?

That's from about a year and a half ago, when I wanted to see for
myself what a Mexican keyboard looked like, to understand why John [1]
was so slow on the smileys in MSN :-)

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[1] http://johnbokma.com/mexit/

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