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slouch
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Shift key stops working properly, < becomes ;

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I am hitting a secret combo of key strokes to change my keyboard inside TextPad. Less than and greater than symbols become semi-colons and colons, and the slash question mark key becomes hyphen and underscore. What am I doing to ruin my keyboard until I restart TextPad, and how can I turn off this feature once I have accidentally turned it on?
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You really need to tell us the keystrokes.
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Post by slouch »

Mike Olds wrote:You really need to tell us the keystrokes.
that's my question--how am I accidentally changing my keyboard settings and ruining my TextPad experience until I restart the program?
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Post by Mike Olds »

slouch not cha gramma

What you really are asking is How does one change the keyboard settings' such that it might be done accidentally.

For us to know how you are accidentally changing the keyboard is beyond the scope of most of us. ... the vision thing, ya know?

Try looking for strange things in:

Configure > Preferences > Keyboard

Maybe 'reset all'.

And it still would help if you observed and remembered and posted the keystrokes you made before the onset of the problem.
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sounds like the keyboard was switched from English to German layout ...
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Post by Jens Hollmann »

I had the same problem (in the opposite direction). The standard "keystroke" is Alt-Shift. Yes just those without pressing any other key and then releasing them switches to another language layout.

If you don't really need this (and it seems you don't), you can delete the unwanted language layout in the system settings. There should be an entry "region and language" (or something like that). In there is a tab "language" and on this tab is a button "Detail...". That's translated from a german Windows XP so some imagination might be needed.

Easy to find :-)
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Post by slouch »

Jens Hollmann wrote:I had the same problem (in the opposite direction). The standard "keystroke" is Alt-Shift. Yes just those without pressing any other key and then releasing them switches to another language layout.

If you don't really need this (and it seems you don't), you can delete the unwanted language layout in the system settings. There should be an entry "region and language" (or something like that). In there is a tab "language" and on this tab is a button "Detail...". That's translated from a german Windows XP so some imagination might be needed.

Easy to find :-)
you win. alt + shift is exactly what is happening. thanks, this was so frustrating to deal with.
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