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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 6, 2009 7:35 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Shortening the rope by dambacher
Parent article: Shortening the rope

There is a grab-breaking key (which I forget) which you can use for the
first (also breaks server grabs, I think, not that those are used by
anyone, thank goodness).

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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 8, 2009 22:01 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

There is a grab-breaking key (which I forget)

    Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs"

...and then ctrl-alt-[keypad]divide. (The latter is one of only two computer commands I have on a PostIt on my monitor. :-) )

Greg

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 17, 2009 19:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, definitely gone in 1.6.x. Blast it.