Re: Keyboard questions

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

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   On 2024-11-28 20:10, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: 

    Alt mode (I guess is what you meant?) and Mode Lock where not
   assigned, and they did not switch your "letters".  Rather they had
   some other intended purpose.

   This is all intelligent speculation ... BV might know better, we could
   ask Knulp who made the Cadet.

   No no, Alt mode (left of Rubout) is the "completion" key, similar to Tab in 
GNU Emacs, or Escape in TECO Emacs. Alt lock
   (to the very right, mirroring Caps lock) is unused but locking. Mode lock 
I'll have to check on my physical keyboard, but
   I'm unsure if it's locking or not. But unused. Several other keys are also 
unused (e.g. Macro, Quote, Overstrike). Note
   also that many/most of the symbols on top/front of the alphabetic keys are 
"untypable" (there is no key press for it).

I was going of the manual. :-)

   Side note: on the Explorer keyboard there were Caps/Bold/Italic/Mode lock 
keys, where the Mode lock made the cursor keys
   move the mouse in 1-pixel increments. We replaced that by macros 
WHEN-DEBUG/IF-DEBUG/DEBUG-FORMAT which did what you
   expect *only if* Mode lock (or some other lock key of your choice) was 
enabled. Quite useful.