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Special Keys

It is not possible to use SLIME using only the keyboard. It is, however, possible to navigate menus and dialogues without using the mouse.

If a window containg a menu bar has the keyboard focus (the window manager will usually highlight a window with keyboad focus in some way), you can activate the menu bar by pressing the tex2html_wrap_inline1869 key. If your keyboard does not have a menu key you should be able to use tex2html_wrap_inline1841 instead. The first item in the menu bar will then be highlighted: the CDE version of Motif highlights menu items by making them appear recessed while other versions of Motif highlight items by making them appear raised. You can use the left and right arrow keys to choose a menu item and pull down the corresponding menu by pressing tex2html_wrap_inline1875 , tex2html_wrap_inline1877 or the down-arrow key. You can also pull down a menu without highlighting its title by pressing its mnemonic which is underlined in the menu. Once you have pulled down a menu you can navigate between the items in it using the up and down arrow keys. You can activate a selected item by pressing tex2html_wrap_inline1875 or tex2html_wrap_inline1877 or activate an item without first selecting it by pressing its mnemonic.

Some menu commands can be invoked without taking the trouble to navigate through the menu structure using special combinations of keys called keyboard accelerators. The only keyboard accelerator used by SLIME is the tex2html_wrap_inline1995 combination used to invoke context-sensitive help (see Chapter 4).

Controls are grouped into control groups. You may switch between control groups by pressing tex2html_wrap_inline1879 , which will move the focus from left to right and top to bottom, or by pressing tex2html_wrap_inline1999 , which will traverse the control groups in the reverse order. You can navigate within a group using the arrow keys and activate a selected component using the tex2html_wrap_inline1877 key. The tex2html_wrap_inline1875 key will activate the selected default button in a dialogue (usually OK) regardless of which control has been selected.


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Chris Flatters
Thu Mar 14 16:02:50 MST 1996