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tutorials:node7.html [2011/04/30 20:31] – [6.2.3 What to Do if You Are Caught in the Newbie Loop] georgtutorials:node7.html [2011/04/30 20:32] – [6.2.3 What to Do if You Are Caught in the Newbie Loop] georg
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 Here's why the steps in Table 6.3 work: Here's why the steps in Table 6.3 work:
  
-1. If com is waiting for you to type a command, then you could type the command anyway, but you type Space, which gets you a prompt (com isn't interpreting commands). Then you type Return, which ends that prompt. So now com is waiting for a command again. So the Space Bar & Return sequence was unnecessary, but it did not harm. (People in the room won't even see it because if you try to ``say'' an empty line, com doesn't print anything.)+1. If com is waiting for you to type a command, then you could type the command anyway, but you type Space, which gets you a prompt (com isn't interpreting commands). Then you type Return, which ends that prompt. So now com is waiting for a command again. So the Space Bar & Return sequence was unnecessary, but it did not harm. (People in the room won't even see it because if you try to ''say'' an empty line, com doesn't print anything.)
  
 2. If com has prompted you & is not interpreting your commands, the Space Bar won't do anything useful, but the Return key will end that prompt. If you had mistakenly typed Return earlier & com was waiting for you to say something into the room, the Space Bar will do nothing, but the Return will end that mode, & com will now wait for you to type a command.. (If you had typed things before the Space Bar, you will ''say'' them into the room.) 2. If com has prompted you & is not interpreting your commands, the Space Bar won't do anything useful, but the Return key will end that prompt. If you had mistakenly typed Return earlier & com was waiting for you to say something into the room, the Space Bar will do nothing, but the Return will end that mode, & com will now wait for you to type a command.. (If you had typed things before the Space Bar, you will ''say'' them into the room.)