Date:         Sun, 22 Jun 1997 15:58:16 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Subject:      Re: SAS text editor and the Home key, need help (3rd try)

In article <5o3ij3$bes@news.tamu.edu>, Ann W Olmsted
<aolmsted@stat.tamu.edu> writes
(snip)
>My question is this:
>When the command line _is_ active, how do you get the cursor to go to the
>beginning of the current line? Can it be necessary to keep hitting or
>holding down the left arrow key?
(snip)
If you get to work in Unix, I found you can customize keys more.
 
I was able to supplement the SAS action with Ctrl+home to go to the
beginning of the line even when the Command line is present.
 
It could have been any combination.
 
Although the keys window allows HOME to be re-defined, there is an area
referred to as X-resources which allow all sorts of key definitions.
With this I was able to define keys, which coming from Windows, I missed
   work skip
   goto end of line
   goto beginning of line
   delete word
   erase to end of line
   erase to beginning of line
 
A parallel on mainframe SAS on a terminal emulator is keyboard remapper.
 
On windows we don't seem to have an equivalent layer of control
 
* unless * someone * on * the * list * knows * something * to *help
 
--
Peter Crawford