ALT key in Winboard

[Gabor Szots]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Gabor Szots am 19 Januar 2000 09:03:55:
On occassions I accidentally tried to jump to the end of a game with the END key. In these cases the remaining part of the game was lost (truncated). All the other keys which should work only together with the ALT key work by themselves too (cursor keys, INSERT for "Move now!" etc.). Am I alone with this experience? Can anyone give me an explanation?

[Tim Mann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Tim Mann am 25 Januar 2000 22:30:13:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: ALT key in Winboard geschrieben von:/posted by: Gabor Szots am 19 Januar 2000 09:03:55:
In modes where the key wouldn't do anything without ALT, the ALT
is optional. For example, in ICS mode the cursor keys are used
for editing in the ICS interaction (terminal) window, so you have
to press ALT to get the various shortcut functions like forward
move, etc. When you aren't in ICS mode and don't have any dialog
boxes on the screen that use the cursor keys, you don't have to
press ALT. This is meant to be for your convenience.
--Tim

[Gabor Szots]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Gabor Szots am 26 Januar 2000 08:23:39:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: ALT key in Winboard geschrieben von:/posted by: Tim Mann am 25 Januar 2000 22:30:13:

In modes where the key wouldn't do anything without ALT, the ALT
is optional. For example, in ICS mode the cursor keys are used
for editing in the ICS interaction (terminal) window, so you have
to press ALT to get the various shortcut functions like forward
move, etc. When you aren't in ICS mode and don't have any dialog
boxes on the screen that use the cursor keys, you don't have to
press ALT. This is meant to be for your convenience.
--Tim

Thank you, Tim. So it is advisable first to save the game and then only move about in it, lest we lose an interesting part. (I use text editors very often, and the End key usually takes me to the end of line, hence the bad habit of trying to use it in Winboard too.)
By the way, wouldn't it be possible in future releases to go to the end of a loaded game with only one key press? Or is it possible now, only I don't know how?
Gabor