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2005-06-26 Thread Goncalo Farias
In reply to mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : We can like it or not like it at our own personal disretion, but there are facts. ASK Ah, the facts, yes. :-) ASK You have to agree that an assumption, based on the fact that 1000 ASK users prefer/use system A and 10 users prefer/use system B, ASK

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2005-06-26 Thread Goncalo Farias
Hi Alex, In reply to mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : ASK Hello Goncalo Farias, ASK on 26-Jun-2005 at 14:16 you (Goncalo Farias) wrote: De facto standards ASK I am quite sure that I am totally wrong when I assume that, ASK seeing your reply in a thread where you haven't participated at ASK all

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2005-06-26 Thread Michael Acklin
Sunday, June 26, 2005, 5:35:41 PM, (Internet Time - ) you wrote: Hello Martin, MS SmartBat (Tools Menu or F6) is what you're looking for, I guess. Yes it is Martin. I just found out on the TB Tech list. Nick Danger brought up the same short cut/menu item. And thanks for your reply. :)

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2005-06-25 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi, ASK Please point me to the starting message on gmane or mailarchive, ASK I haven't seen the topic in the past 1 1/2 weeks and I've been ASK away was unsubscribed before. I don't keep a complete archive either, but the starting message was posted by me on the 3rd of June at 2144 bearing the

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2005-06-25 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Alex, ASK Hmmm, so its nothing new. Yes, TheBat behaves like this since the earliest version I have seen - 1.53, I believe. ASK One personal preference against the ASK other, and the proclamation of partly self-raised standards Indeed. RIT aparently thought that thousands and thousands of

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2005-06-25 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Alex, Indeed. RIT aparently thought that thousands and thousands of editors were doing it all wrong and invented their own system. ASK No, thats not what I meant. I understood you perfectly well. However, in this case precocious remarks are not going to change anything: Thousands of

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2005-06-25 Thread Allie Martin
On Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 9:54:33 AM [GMT -0500], Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Uh... the Windows editor *removes* the LFs (that autoformat inserted) before sending? Is that WOD? In the editor prefs wrapping at column 75 is set, and it appears on-screen, but is gone when I send... ?!? puzzled

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2005-06-25 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi, The others are the majority, that fact alone says enough. ASK Killer argument. Thousands of lemmings can't be wrong! :-) How many computers are running Windows, how many OS/2? We can like it or not like it at our own personal disretion, but there are facts. -- MfG, Alto

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2005-06-25 Thread Allie Martin
On Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 10:33:00 AM [GMT -0500], Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Really? I thought if I set TB to wrap at column 75, it would do that on sending, and not only on-screen, and remove the formatting when sending. It means I compose a message on-screen and it will not look the way

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2005-06-25 Thread Allie Martin
On Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 11:25:39 AM [GMT -0500], Lars Sölter wrote: Alto was talking about the GUI of what ever operating system. That's what *you're* talking about and not what Alto's talking about. He's saying that once the majority uses a particular approach, then that must say

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2005-06-25 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Lars, LS Alto was talking about the GUI of what ever operating system. LS And the fact that a GUI only makes sense when every application on LS that system is handled similar in it's basic functions (shortcuts, LS menu entries, dialog and window structure ...). LS That is the fundamental

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2005-06-24 Thread Francis Segond
Bonjour Alexander, ASK And when I quote it and reflow your quotes with ALT-L, everything ASK is gone. ASK Get my point now? :-) Nope! Why would you want to reflow manually your text while using auto-format which does this for you? Once again, I'm just talking about a feature (hard vs

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2005-06-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi all, FS I only miss the possibility to start a new line in the same FS paragraph with the auto-format mode switched on, like many FS word-processors do with Shift+Return. CM Agreed. And in addition to this a possibility to visually distinguish CM between new line (Shift+Return) and new

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2005-06-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi, ASK How do you keep line feed and line feed apart once the message is sent? ASK You can't do that. A linefeed is a linefeed, especially in a plain text ASK message. Yes - it says go to next line. It does not say insert empty line here. So once more, I don't get what the problem is supposed

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2005-06-24 Thread Avi Yashar
On 6/24/05, Alto Speckhardt wrote: Why all the trouble? One-Enter is end-paragraph-and-goto-next-line, two-Enter is end-paragraph-and-insert-new-empty-line. The way it's done since WordStar. Why fumble around with two different key combinations that just confuse everything all over again? Not

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2005-06-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Alex, Yes, I'm with you absolutly. This in fact is my basic complaint with MicroEd, not being able to handle a single Enter as an end this paragraph and start a new line as in every other editor I know of. ASK Nonsense! Turn off auto-formatting and you have what you want. May I suggest you

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2005-06-23 Thread Allie Martin
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 08:51 AM, Lars Sölter wrote: I for my self decided to use the windows editor, because I never got used to the weird MircoEd behaviour for Cursorplacement, double LF for marking new paragraphs, So why are you double line feeding for new paragraphs with the

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2005-06-23 Thread Allie Martin
On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 09:22 AM, Lars Sölter wrote: Yes, it is some kind of convetion for paragraphs in lager text bodies. But then how to handle tables or lists or ... Indeed. However, but you were double line feeding for your paragraphs using the Windows Editor while at the same time

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2005-06-23 Thread Francis Segond
Bonjour Alexander, ASK How do you keep line feed and line feed apart once the message is sent? ASK You can't do that. A linefeed is a linefeed, especially in a plain text ASK message. I don't get your point there. I'm talking about hard linefeed (return) and soft linefeed (shift+return) *while*