Left-Ctrl A disabler

by Andrew Rowland

Have you ever been typing an 'A' and accidentally hit the Ctrl key as well? If you use Impression or Ovation you will have seen your whole text story selected and the next keypress delete the lot. To avoid this annoying (and in the case of the author, embarrassingly frequent) occurrence, CtrlAdis was written.

This small module catches any Ctrl-A characters you may type and replaces them with the letter A - in either capitals or lower case depending on Caps lock, Shift etc - so you will remain entirely ignorant of your clumsiness. You may still type a real Ctrl-A by using the right-hand Ctrl key. After all, it's useful at times!

Running the item from the RISC User menu system opens a directory viewer containing the module (CtrlAmod) and its source code (CtrlAsrce). Double-clicking on the module will install it. Once installed it will prevent Ctrl-A (when typed with the left hand Ctrl key) from working
but will not affect the right hand Ctrl key. It substitutes a or A for
LH-Ctrl A.

To disable, press F12 and type:
    RMkill CtrlAdis
then press Return.

If you use it constantly, you could copy CtrlAmod onto your hard disc
or start-up floppy and include this line in your boot file:
    RMload <path>.CtrlAmod
where <path> is the full pathname of the module.

Alternatively, copy it into your Ovation or Impression directory and
include in the application's !Run file the line:
    RMEnsure CtrlAdis 1.00 RMload <Obey$dir>.CtrlAmod

Dedicated to Peter Bond
Copyright  RISC User 1995
