X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/blobdiff_plain/6668a75e54d5a0f3af36b57180177a7fc09868d4..e81024f93e0944de344c6b77868a873854e44892:/doc/faq.but diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 18d42909..abb44901 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ your terminal runs the risk of sending the same control sequence by accident, and cause unexpected changes in the window title. Don't do it. -\S{faq-password-fails}{Question} My keyboard stops working once -PuTTY displays the password prompt. +\S{faq-password-fails}{Question} My \i{keyboard} stops working once +PuTTY displays the \i{password prompt}. No, it doesn't. PuTTY just doesn't display the password you type, so that someone looking at your screen can't see what it is. @@ -790,8 +790,8 @@ as a row of asterisks either. This is so that someone looking at your screen can't even tell how \e{long} your password is, which might be valuable information. -\S{faq-keyboard}{Question} One or more function keys don't do what I -expected in a server-side application. +\S{faq-keyboard}{Question} One or more \I{keyboard}\i{function keys} +don't do what I expected in a server-side application. If you've already tried all the relevant options in the PuTTY Keyboard panel, you may need to mail the PuTTY maintainers and ask. @@ -812,8 +812,8 @@ application is expecting. The simplest way to investigate this is to find some other terminal environment, in which that function key \e{does} work; and then investigate what sequence the function key is sending in that -situation. One reasonably easy way to do this on a Unix system is to -type the command \c{cat}, and then press the function key. This is +situation. One reasonably easy way to do this on a \i{Unix} system is to +type the command \i\c{cat}, and then press the function key. This is likely to produce output of the form \c{^[[11~}. You can also do this in PuTTY, to find out what sequence the function key is producing in that. Then you can mail the PuTTY maintainers and tell