Using function keys on keyboard with the Poplog editor Ved/XVed (vedfunctionkeys)
Channel: aaronsloman
Date: 2011-12-21

The previous tutorial demonstrated some of the things that can be done with the Poplog editor Ved/XVed without using any function keys, only normal keyboard keys and the ESC and CTRL keys. This tutorial goes beyond that to show how many of the operations can be performed more economically using function keys on a standard PC keyboard.

The keyboard layout is shown in this diagram http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/help/vedkeys.jpg

Near the end of the tutorial I tried to demonstrate the use of the numeric keypad to compile a marked range, but forgot to preceded the key with ESC. So instead of compiling the whole range it compiled only the last line of the marked range, and reported a syntax error, because it found the 'endrepeat' syntax word without first finding the 'repeat'. If I had pressed ESC first, the demonstration would have worked, as you can confirm if you have poplog. 

In fact, as shown in the demo, the marked range can be compiled using CTRL D, which is probably more convenient for most people than ESC followed by keypad '*' key.