[WriteLog] Entry corrections on CW

[Barry Kutner]

In Writelog, whatever is there as that little red box goes away 
(which disappears too quickly in my opinion) is what xmits.
Some other contesting pgms  allow changes/additions until that 
character is xmitted.
Barry

On 26 Feb 01, Dick Green wrote:

> 
> W6YA wrote:
> 
> > Hopefully some day WriteLog will have the ability to recognize a
> > correction when typed ahead of the same point in the CW exchange.  For
> > years I had been used to this feature with another popular contesting
> > program, but it still has not been accomplished with WriteLog.  I would
> > think ALL serious CW contesters would want this feature.  I had first
> > asked for it late in 1999 but nothing has been done.
> >
> > If I type in JA1ACC and hit INS, the exchange begins.  If I correct it
> > to JA1ABC before WriteLog sends the suffix of that call, it should come
> > out corrected, as JA1ABC.  I find that no correction made after hitting
> > the INS key will be recognized in the exchange sent.
> 
> When you use the W5XD+ keyer, you can correct any character before it is
> sent provided that you backspace over it (i.e., you have to wipe out all
> characters between the target character and the end of the call, then retype
> them.) So, you would backspace over "JA1ACC" so that it reads "JA1A", then
> type "BC". You cannot use the left arrow key to position the cursor over the
> "C" and change it to a "B". I suspect this is because WL can tell the keyer
> when a backspace has erased a character, but not when the cursor is
> positioned over a character (the keyer probably has no internal editing
> index.)
> 
> I could have sworn that I checked this out in "PC Generates" and it works
> the same way. Try the backspace and let us know.
> 
> 73, Dick WC1M
> 
> 
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