^1 ^2 ^3 stopped working
Submitted by on Sunday, 2 March, 2008 - 03:55
Sometime recently (in the past week or so?), Control-1, control-2, control-3 etc. stopped working in jEdit. Before I report this as a bug, I thought I would run it by here in case anyone had any ideas.
^1, ^2 etc. are the default keys for splitting the window. I checked and they are still assigned to those functions in the Utilities | Global Options under the Shortcuts; but when I try to assign them to some other function, they don't register at all. That is, if I click on a cell, jEdit pops up a little dialog box allowing me to "Specify Shortcut". If I type most any key, it shows up in the text box; but ^1, ^2 etc. don't appear. It's as if they aren't getting pressed. Oddly enough, ^6 still works, as does control-minus; but none of the other combinations of the control key with the top row work.
Control-. control-, and control-/ have also stopped working, and several others. I believe all the control-alpha keys work.
I thought maybe some other program was interfering. But I fired up my Other Editor, Visual Slickedit, and all these keys work fine there.
I would suspect a bug in some late version of jEdit or in Java, but if so it is odd that no one else has reported this. I did install a new Java just yesterday: 1.6.0_04, but I've also tried this with Java 1.6.0_03 and 1.5.0_02. And I'm using jEdit 4.3pre12; I have not yet tried reverting to an earlier version, although I suppose I'll try that and report back. I am running on Windows XP, all service packs. I tried both left and right control keys, and also the CapsLock key (which I've mapped back to a control key, as God intended it).
Any suggestions?
Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U MD
^1, ^2 etc. are the default keys for splitting the window. I checked and they are still assigned to those functions in the Utilities | Global Options under the Shortcuts; but when I try to assign them to some other function, they don't register at all. That is, if I click on a cell, jEdit pops up a little dialog box allowing me to "Specify Shortcut". If I type most any key, it shows up in the text box; but ^1, ^2 etc. don't appear. It's as if they aren't getting pressed. Oddly enough, ^6 still works, as does control-minus; but none of the other combinations of the control key with the top row work.
Control-. control-, and control-/ have also stopped working, and several others. I believe all the control-alpha keys work.
I thought maybe some other program was interfering. But I fired up my Other Editor, Visual Slickedit, and all these keys work fine there.
I would suspect a bug in some late version of jEdit or in Java, but if so it is odd that no one else has reported this. I did install a new Java just yesterday: 1.6.0_04, but I've also tried this with Java 1.6.0_03 and 1.5.0_02. And I'm using jEdit 4.3pre12; I have not yet tried reverting to an earlier version, although I suppose I'll try that and report back. I am running on Windows XP, all service packs. I tried both left and right control keys, and also the CapsLock key (which I've mapped back to a control key, as God intended it).
Any suggestions?
Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U MD
