Hi DM,

I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when a user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way - is that correct?

A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchronet says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit a key]", and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing the original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when pressed at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?

Nightfox

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Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm

Hi DM,

I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when a user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way - is that correct?

A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchronet says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit a key]", and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing the original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when pressed at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?

Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C while at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted in JS). --
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Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:49 pm

Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm

Hi DM,

I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when > > user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way - is > > that correct?

A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchrone > > says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit a key > > and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing th > > original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen
doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when press > > at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?

Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C whil > at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted in JDoes this apply to the '1' key also? I use that on my menus and notice that itbehaves similar to 'Q' even when not specified. Is there a way to override

these global keys by any chance, or is that hard coded?

thanks!

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Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Finglonger to Digital Man on Tue Feb 18 2025 09:07 am

Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:49 pm

Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm

Hi DM,

I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when

user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way

- is > > that correct?

A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchrone

says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit

a key > > and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing th > > original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen
doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when press

at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?

Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C whil

at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted in

JDoes this apply to the '1' key also? I use that on my menus and notice that itbehaves similar to 'Q' even when not specified. Is there a way to override

these global keys by any chance, or is that hard coded?

Nightfox was asking about the Pause ([Hit a key] prompt) - that should have no effect on any of your menus.

The keys for 'Q'uit and 'N'o are set in the text.dat/text.ini files, so they're configurable.
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