Confused by keymode vs correction mode

[Heather]

I want to start doing some editing from my machine and have messed around with the realtime kit from the Eclipse website, but I'm at a total loss as to the purpose of keymode vs. correction mode. Is it just preference to which one you like to use, because I see a lot of the same commands in both modes, or do you need to remember which macro puts you in keymode and use different steno strokes? Sometimes when I use some of the macros, I get a window that pops up for keymode and it gets stuck there that I have to hit escape on my computer to get back into the file. I'd like to start working on using these but I'm just feeling overwhelmed.

Thanks,
Heather

[Heather]

Okay, I realized that what's causing that window to pop up is when I use the escape stroke to get out of a window and then try another macro. It pops up with a Edit Toggles window. I assume that means I'm stuck in keymode? Am I not supposed to be using the escape stroke to bail out of something?

[Heather]

I think I figured out what my whole problem was. I was keeping all the realtime strokes in their own dictionary and not merging them into my main.. and there's also a bunch that I didn't realize I needed to move that the others are dependant on. Cool... now I can finally figure this stuff out!

[Heather]

Well, that fixed most of them. I'm still having problems with the enter and the panic strokes bringing up the Edit Toggles window, and my Global X strokes commands are not working right AT ALL. Maybe I'll call support tomorrow, because I don't think I'm even making sense!!

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Heather, Here's a paste of mine from CR-NET:

I had a problem a year ago, and Keith Vincent wrote this on CRF. This is a partial paste.

In your Keymode dictionary, you probably have S-DZ defined as {M:Enter - RT}. Well, change that to the following:

{M:Enter (for Key Mode) - RT}

By the way, the capitalization and the spacing must be the way it appears here. There is NO space on either side of the colon, but there is definitely a space everywhere else, including one space on either side of the hyphen.

If you're wondering about the reason for the change, it is simply that the "Enter (for Key Mode) - RT" macro does everything that we need it to do, and it does it without complications. When you're at the steno emulator dialogue and you press S-DZ, it presses the Enter key and opens the globaling dialogue so that you can say what your steno means. When you're finished with the globaling dialogue, it confirms the dictionary entry that you've been creating. The old "Enter - RT" macro would want to take some extra steps in the Edit Toggles dialogue and, frankly, those steps are not necessary because of some improvements that were made to the globaling process since the time that I first created the Realtime Editing Kit

[Heather]

Jenny,
I was hoping that was it, but I have that entry in my keymode dictionary with the (for Key Mode). But I don't have it in my main dictionary, but I'm guessing that's normal..right? The one in my main is just "Enter - RT"

I just looked at the text for the (for Key Mode) version of the macro, and it's only one line, just "Enter." Is that all that yours has? Seems like it would be enter and then something to exit keymode?

Thanks