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Hey

I am new to programming in general but am trying to work in Perl.
The thing is that almost every time I write a script (I use nedit) I get problems with Alt Gr.

E.g. In stead of } I get <gs> or in stead of \ nothing happens. Sometimes it's really bad and when I want a new line then everytime I press Alt Gr \ n to get a newline a new nedit window is opened instead.

This is really annoying and I'm wondering if it's a shortcut key problem in the program or if it's my keyboard that has a problem since it sometimes seems like I get a Ctrl reaction(like with Alt Gr \ n) in stead of an Alt Gr reaction when using Alt Gr...

I can retype like ten times in a row with the same wrong result and then suddenly get the right one, so I know I'm not just hitting a wrong key by accident.

Didn't know if this was the place to post this but hope someone might have an idea. ..

Hi.

I don't usually use GUI editors, but I installed nedit to see what you were talking about.

I marked a position with Alt+Mr (hold down Alt, press "M", press "r". Then I moved the insertion marker-cursor elsewhere. When I pressed Alt+Gr, the insertion marker moved to the position that I had marked with "r". It looks like if one presses Shift-Alt+Gr, then one creates a selection -- at least there was highlighting of text -- but I did not pursue that.

So my experience with the keystrokes that I found in the menus that seemed to correspond to your post worked as I thought they should.

My system is:
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
NEdit 5.5

This may not help you specifically -- so perhaps an nedit expert will stop by with some advice.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl