[oXygen-user] what happened to my cursor keys?

[Syd Bauman]

Has anyone else suffered sudden up- and down-key remapping in the
oXygen editor on Mac OS X? It's driving me nuts. A week or so ago,
for no apparent reason, pushing the up arrow key no longer causes the
cursor to go up in the oXygen editor pane, but rather causes the
buffer to scroll down. It's as if in this circumstance oXygen is
seeing ctl-up instead of up.

I thought I might have a sticky keyboard, but it happened with 3
different keyboards. I might have suspected oXygen 9.3, but I've had
it for a pretty long time, and hadn't noticed this problem before. I
suspected a Mac OS X update, but the owner of one of the 3 or 4 Macs
I saw displaying this symptom this weekend swore she hadn't applied
any system updates.

What gives? How can I wrest control of my cursor keys back?

(It's interesting the compensatory mechanisms we develop -- I found
myself finding new key combinations to get me close to what I used to
be able to do. E.g., where previously I would have pressed down down
cmd-right to get to the end of the line 2 lines below where my cursor
is, now cmd-right right cmd-right right cmd-right does the trick.)