bug: helpviewer Ctl-Alt-H hotkey

when you hit ctrl-alt-h on a work like io-net, helpviewer goes and look for
io, not io-net
Using 6.2.1 released selfhosted

acellarius@yahoo.com wrote:

when you hit ctrl-alt-h on a work like io-net, helpviewer goes and look for
io, not io-net

Not if you select io-net first, right?

It’s a pterm thing: if you hit ctrl-alt-h when nothing is selected,
pterm selects the word the cursor is on, and pterm’s interpretation of
“io-net” is that it’s two words with a minus sign between them.
Pterm’s understanding of what constitutes a word is inspired by C rather
than by ksh, and is older than our habit of putting ‘-’ in command
names…

On 19 Mar 2003 22:06:42 GMT, Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> wrote:

acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
when you hit ctrl-alt-h on a work like io-net, helpviewer goes and look for
io, not io-net

Not if you select io-net first, right?

It’s a pterm thing: if you hit ctrl-alt-h when nothing is selected,
pterm selects the word the cursor is on, and pterm’s interpretation of
“io-net” is that it’s two words with a minus sign between them.
Pterm’s understanding of what constitutes a word is inspired by C rather
than by ksh, and is older than our habit of putting ‘-’ in command
names…

Right, I see what you mean.
TINSTAAFL

acellarius@yahoo.com wrote:

TINSTAAFL

?

Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> wrote:

acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
TINSTAAFL

?

google.com

:slight_smile:


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acellarius@yahoo.com wrote:
: On 19 Mar 2003 22:06:42 GMT, Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> wrote:
:> It’s a pterm thing: if you hit ctrl-alt-h when nothing is selected,
:> pterm selects the word the cursor is on, and pterm’s interpretation of
:> “io-net” is that it’s two words with a minus sign between them.
:> Pterm’s understanding of what constitutes a word is inspired by C rather
:> than by ksh, and is older than our habit of putting ‘-’ in command
:> names…
:>

: Right, I see what you mean.
: TINSTAAFL

How about TINSOBITSB (There Is No Shortage Of Baggage In The Software
Business)? :slight_smile:


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TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems

Robert Krten <nospam82@parse.com> wrote:

Wojtek Lerch <> wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> > wrote:
acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
TINSTAAFL

?

google.com

:slight_smile:

Ah.

Of course.

Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> wrote:

acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
TINSTAAFL

?

Probably, “There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” – but I think the
original quote/phrase is, actually, “TANSTAAFL”, “There Ain’t No Such…”,
using the (colloquial) double-negative for emphasis.

-David

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On 20 Mar 2003 17:37:38 GMT, Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Robert Krten <> nospam82@parse.com> > wrote:
Wojtek Lerch <> wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> > wrote:
acellarius@yahoo.com > wrote:
TINSTAAFL

?

google.com

:slight_smile:

Ah.

Of course.

Usenet-gotta love it.

Ironic how a nice to have feature can explode into unforeseen ramifications?
If you are not going to “fix” this, I will understand…

acellarius@yahoo.com wrote:

If you are not going to “fix” this, I will understand…

That’s good, because I don’t consider it broken… :slight_smile: