[Lazarus] Keyboard interpreted incorrectly?

[R.Smith]

Are you using it through a Remote desktop or VM or such?

Check the Ctrl key is not pressed. i is the 9th letter and TAB is the 
9th ASCII character. Similarly m is the 13th letter and NewLine is the 
13th ACII character - which makes  it seem to me somewhere the keyboard 
is getting confused.

Does this work correctly when you edit a text file?

If so, check the Lazarus Tools-->Options for keyboard input (keys can be 
assigned specifically there, maybe you have a weird set assigned), 
although I do not know of a standard setting that would cause this. I 
have however seen stuff like that happen when I had the Ctrl and/or Alt 
key stuck down or used it via remote desks.

Good luck!
Ryan


On 2020/04/10 14:40, Brian via lazarus wrote:
> Help, please, folks!
>
> I am just returning to using Lazarus for the first time in probably 6
> months or so, certainly for the first time since I switched operating
> systems. I am now using Linux Mint 19.3 64-bit with an XFCE desktop. I
> used fpcupdeluxe and installed the fixes version of both fpc and
> lazarus via the button at the bottom of the screen. Everything seemed
> to go OK, I could see no error messages in the downloads and build,
> and I am now left with (it says) a copy of lazarus v 2.0.7 r 62901 and
> fpc 3.2.0.
>
> The problem is when I try to key in my code (and I'm creating a new
> program, not an application). Most of the keys work OK, at least that
> I have found so far, but an 'i' produces a TAB and then an i, and an
> 'm' just gives me a new line. The upper case versions of these
> characters work as expected, so my temporary workround is obviously to
> use those and the formatter, but to say it's a nuisance is an
> understatement! I'm using a standard American keyboard layout, and I
> have not seen this behaviour in any other application, for sure not in
> the copy of thunderbird which I'm using to write this message! I've
> also tried a few other applications, and it's only (so far) the
> lazarus ide that's afflicted.
>
> Anybody have any ideas, please?
>
>
> Brian.