Re: Two simpl questions

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Walter Blum wrote:

> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:24:53 -0700
> From: Walter Blum <walterblum@worldnet.att.net>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: Re: Two simpl questions
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> >
> >
> > Depending on what you mean there are various ways this
> > could be achieved. Modifying the default template
> > Normal.awt is probably the easiest.
> > http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtonormaltemplate.html

Only able to direct you to the FAQ, if that doesn't work not sure what
else to do. I did try messing around manually editing the Normal.awt but
it didn't work for me in my few quick attempts but perhaps someone else
might explain whatever trick we are missing.

It might also help to know the reason you are trying to do this (it would
surpise me if you really wanted to write an entire document in bold face).
If for example it is perhaps because you find the default font sizes too
small and hard to read it might be an Accessibility problem which could be
better solved in another way.

> >> Can I change the Insert key so it becomes a Paste
> >> command, as it does in MS Word?

> > The Insert key behaves in Abiword the same as it behaves
> > in Microsoft Word and practically every other other
> > application in Windows. This has nothing to do with
> > Abiword.
> >
> > If you wish to paste text into any application in
> > Microsoft Windows one of the ways you can do so by
> > holding Shift and then pressing Insert.

> Well, I didn't know this.

I'm surprised you knew enough of the possibility to ask the question but
it is an ancient legacy thing (from Word Perfect I suspect).

> Actually, MS Word lets you change the INSERT key to a Paste key. The
> INSERT key has always been a damned nuisance because when you
> accidentally hit it, you get Overstrike instead. However, everywhere
> else in Windows Shift Insert does that quite nicely.

There have been various suggestions about how we might avoid that
nuisance, and offering to remap the Insert key to Paste would certainly be
one way to at least hide the problem.
http://www.abisource.com/wiki/FaqWhyIsMyTextOverwrittenAsIType
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7071

-- 
Alan
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