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March 19, 2004
A "cursory" glance at "Misery"
Let's try an experiment to see whether I have wasted my money on a new keyboard for this laptop. (It has not arrived yet, I should add, so this is the old one.) The other day when I was trying to do a post, the keys seemed to bounce all around, although rig ---- there! just when I was typing the word "right" it flew away from me. I think it has something to do with the mouse (the built in mouse) on the keyboard. Something is worn out, and it only happens occasionally, annoyingly.... But I don't want it to happen at all. ced th I especially don't want it to happen when posting, because you should see the way this thing positively flies right out of the "Entry Body" space in Movable Type -- instantly transforming it into Movable Typo! It threw me out of the current screen without warning, then I was back to the "Edit Entries" mode. I could easily lose an unsaved post that way. I am still not convin ----OK STOP RIGHT THERE! Suddenly, without my doing anything but continuing to type, the cuersor flew to the end of a line several lines abov SEE THAT???? I did NOT type the word "cuersor" above; I typed "above" above, and the "e" inserted itself into the word "cursor." INFURIATING. Back to what I was trying to say before the cursor misery. (Remember Stephen King's typing problems in Misery? This machine is at least as disobedient as his manual typewriter, but I do get to keep all my f) ---- WHOA I spoke too fast there. As the above shows, my fingers were just sliced up by the scimitar edge of that dangling, Damoclean parenthesis! Scary.....) As I was trying to type "I am still not convinced" it stopped at "I am still not convin" and the "ced" appeared TWELVE LINES above, like this: But I don't want it to happen at all. ced th The possibilities for misery and grief are endless. Still, I am wondering whether Movable Type might be the problem, because I opened Word and tried to get this to happen without any success. Any experts out there? (I am running a Dell Latitude C600, Movable Type 2.64.) ----WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT? tried to type "faster" and "aste" suddenly jumped to just above "I love this machine." Funny, the things I fall in love with..... posted by Eric on 03.19.04 at 05:06 PM
Comments
Whoa there... Skip Perry · March 19, 2004 09:42 PM Whoa thanks! I am using a touchpad, but touching on the touchpad while typing doesn't seem to do anything. Eric Scheie · March 19, 2004 11:42 PM I think I have it figured out. Had to download software from Synaptics to enable me to disable (?) the "tap to click" feature on the touchpad. It seems that was too sensitive, with no way to turn it off. (But it only did this in Movable Type, which makes no sense!) THANKS FOR POINTING ME TOWARDS THE SOLUTION! Eric Scheie · March 20, 2004 12:32 AM same problem with Dell Inspiron 8000 with windows Me. I just attach the mouse to the back of the Computer and the touch pad still works, the mouse works and the eerie letter hopping quits. Pete Schleuter · March 25, 2004 12:59 PM |
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