[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 5 May at 17:16, Brian D <groups at planet3.freeuk.co.uk> wrote:

> On 5 May,
>      Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 5 May at 15:19, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > One of the benefits of VA is the ease with which I can swap in and
> > > out of my Virtual desktop to my Windows XP desktop. (Although I
> > > would prefer to use RISC OS all of the time I live in a world
> > > where from time to time I need to use software under Windows in
> > > particular to check whether my web sites display correctly on
> > > Firefox etc.) The only problem I have with this is that
> > > /sometimes/ on returning to the RISC OS desktop I find an
> > > uncontrollable carriage return which always requires a reboot. By
> > > this I mean that on opening eg a Zap or Ovation Pro window the
> > > caret rushes to the bottom of the page and the window then
> > > continues to scroll downwards at high speed. A series of <Escape>
> > > presses temporarily fixes the problem but it then lies in wait
> > > ready to pounce again just as I am doing something important.
> > 
> > I have occasionally seen a key go into auto-repeat and refuse all
> > blandishments to stop.  So have to reboot.
> 
> I've had this problem, mostly (only?) in Zap. I've assumed it to be a
> Zap problem. Perhaps it isn't.

Definitely StrongEd here, so no winner to a new Editor War.  And my
VARPC is on a Mac, which I forgot to add previously.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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