[arachne] Re: Backspace/History Hotkey Doesn't Work

  • From: "Eric S. Emerson" <sernemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:00:11 -5000

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Greg,
      I return from ALT-X by typing arachne and
then pressing ENTER.  When I ALT-X with 190J1
my modem stays connected so I can ALT-X and
return when ever I want.

Eric


On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:43:42 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:01:44 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote:

>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> Right Greg M.,
>>           These behaviors were what I was referring
>> to when I said I was confussled.  I think I understand
>> what the usage of the term homepage is when referring
>> to a page called by a button in a browser. But, what
>> any particular browser user wants when returning from
>> an ALT-E or an ALT-X with or without being connected
>> online is the confuzzling part.

> There is no return from Alt-X. It closes Arachne.

> And when I do an Alt-E and then exit, Arachne usually returns me to the
> page I had open when I shelled out.

>> As you see, as I said
>> earlier, it is my understanding that with default settings
>> the dialer page is supposed to come up when you first
>> start Arachne and you are offline. It doesn't in my
>> setup because I customized it, and after ten years
>> I tend to forget on occasion what I have customized
>> and what I have not.

> HA! Been there myself <GGGGG>

>> I'm sorry about the Desktop
>> referrence, I thought I was using a default setting
>> for homepage and when I pressed my ALT-F1 the
>> Desktop came up. Of course, F10 will also bring up
>> the Desktop.

> What puzzled me -- and still puzzles me -- is why you would want to use
> Alt-F1 to call up the desktop when it can be done by default with a
> single key, F10.

> OTOH I have at times done things that I realized later weren't all that
> necessary, or in some case not even sensible.

> My default HomePage is a local file called mypage.htm that I have built
> with links to various things that I find useful. Some of these links are
> duplicates of things that i can get to in the default settings, but have
> been put into the page just so I have a common starting point for them.

> And others links in that page save me from having to go and search
> hotlist to access them.

> ...   ,-./\
> ...  /     \     from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
> ...  \_,-*_/     "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E
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