Zeus IDE

I'm evaluating Zeus so I don't know if that precludes me from getting support.

I've been setting up my own custom keyboard mapping. I accidentally used Ctrl-Z as a prefix key (I meant to use Esc). I removed the key combination. But now when I press Ctrl-Z it does nothing (acting as if it is a prefix key waiting for the second keystroke) and when I press it a second time, I get the "right arrow" character. It alternates between pause, right arrow.

I've exhaustively gone though each key and macro function and nowhere is the Ctrl-Z used as a prefix in the "Currently assigned" -- it is setup properly for Undo.

I'm nervous about editing my Zeus-edt.map to determine if an extraneous Ctrl-Z prefix exists. Am I stuck with having to zap the map and start from scratch?

Thoughts?

I'm evaluating Zeus so I don't know if that precludes me from getting support.

Any Zeus user who goes to the trouble of posting a message to this forum will get full technical support

I'm nervous about editing my Zeus-edt.map to determine if an extraneous Ctrl-Z prefix exists.

The first thing I would do is make a full copy of the zConfig directory just in case

Am I stuck with having to zap the map and start from scratch?

Now the fix to the problem might be as obvious as re-mapping the Ctrl-Z to the Undo function so that is what I would try first.

If that does not fix the problem, I would then take your current keyboard mapping and use the Export button found in the Options, Editor Options, Keyboard Mapping dialog to create a text file of all the keyboard mappings. You can open this file in Zeus and look at all the current keyboard functions mappings (i.e one per line). If you see something wrong just delete the line.

Then create a new dummy keyboard mapping and re-import this file. With any luck the this keyboard will have fixed the issues

If it does you can just delete the broken keyboard mapping and re-create it using the import process

Cheers Jussi

I had Ctrl-Z assigned to Undo.

This worked great! I found at the end of the exported key mapping these two lines:

[KeyPrefix#2]
Prefix=Ctrl+Z

I.e., these lines were created after I used Ctrl-Z as a prefix but weren't deleted after I got rid all Ctrl-Z prefix assignments. -- might be a handy thing to have happen. I deleted these two lines and re-imported and Ctrl-Z was AOK again.

My only quibble is that the export ignored the key assignments of my macro scripts. But that was fairly finite so no big deal recreating.

Thanks for the help!

[KeyPrefix#2]
Prefix=Ctrl+Z

That makes sense now. The keyboard edit created the new prefix list, but the fact that the list was empty did not stop the prefix from trapping the prefix key

My only quibble is that the export ignored the key assignments of my macro scripts. But that was fairly finite so no big deal recreating.

This and the other isssue will be fixed in the next Zeus patch

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers Jussi

These two issues are fixed in the latest Zeus patch: http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3234

Cheers Jussi

therefore wrote:I'm evaluating Zeus so I don't know if that precludes me from getting support.

I would like to give a big recommendation for ZEUS, it is probably the best editor I have used.