Disabling Help

[jhohman]

Ironically, I need help disabling 'HELP' in ACAD. I am a typer more than a button presser so I commonly hit ESC but sometimes my fingers want to be fatter than they should be and I accidentally hit F1 and the help pops up. Couldn't I simply remove the help file support path or will that cause errors because ACAD knows to look for something either way when the F1 key is pressed? Thanks you in advance for your assistance.

[BrenBren]

I think you could probably redefine your F1 key, but I don't know how to do that. Although, I am not sure if that is possible, because F1 is not only AutoCADs help, but Windows help as well, and it seems to me that you can't redefine keys that are windows accelerators as well (such as CTRL ALT DELETE)

check under accelerators in the help file (you know, the one you don't need )

BTW, the same thing happens to me alot when I hit escape, but I have found that once it is open, the only thing it does is blink in my taskbar, it doesn't come to the front (using 2004)

[Glenndp]

Check out this site.
Redefine AutoCAD's F1 Key

[jhohman]

Saweeeet!!

That was it! I really appreciate it, you have just added about 10 years to my life, since the frustration I would have to go through would kill me if I didn't find a solution! Thank you.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Check out the following snippet from Ed Jobe (from an old CADMgr Guild post) -

<snip>
I came to the same conclusion, except that I though it would be good to provide some feedback. I came up with this function in the acad.lsp file.

;;;used to remap the F1 key

(defun NoHelp () 
 (setvar "nomutt" 1)
 (princ "You hit the F1 key.")
 (setvar "nomutt" 0)
 (princ)
)

Then, the F1 macro becomes:

["F1"]^C^C(NoHelp)

Here is what you get:

Command: *Cancel*
Command: *Cancel*
Command: (NoHelp) You hit the F1 key.
</snip>

Have a good one, Mike

[jhohman]

Thank you for the additional information Mike!