Dear (non-)users of Arachne's hotlist manager,
while Michael and the arachne development team have to struggle with
"real world problems like cookies or JavaScript" we are left with a
bookmark management that is not yet ideal. The following remarks may
interest those of you who do *not* use Arachne's hotlist manager,
but edit their bookmark file(s) manually.
1. Define name of hotlist
In ARACHNE.CFG you change the name of the file that Arachne considers
as her hotlist:
Hotlist MYLINKS.HTM
On hot key A she will append new bookmarks to this
file, and on hot key H she will load this file to the screen.
2. Collecting new links in a separate file
If you want to send the new bookmarks (which are not yet categorized)
to a different file, you select this file, let us say NEWLINKS.HTM as
hotlist in ARACHNE.CFG, but write only one single line into
NEWLINKS.HTM:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=MYLINKS.HTM">
where MYLINKS.HTM is the file with the categorized bookmarks. Hot
key A will still add the new URL to NEWLINKS.HTM, but hot key H will
immediately switch to the file MYLINKS.HTM.
3. Editing the bookmark file
There are several ways how to facilitate "cut'n paste" depending
on which editors you prefer (cf. the discussion on external editors
two months ago). Actually you can start any DOS program from within
Arachne: you just write the command line that calls your editor into a
batch file and put this file with the extension *.OOK in Arachne's
\OOPS directory. This batch file can be started at almost any time
with a user defined hot key (Shift+F1 ... Shift+F10). The
definition in ARACHNE.CFG looks somehow like this:
ShiftF7 file://oops\MYEDITOR.OOK
Most editors allow to enter the file(s) in the command line. So it
will probably do if your ook-file contains one single line like this
one:
[drive:][path]PROGRAM.EXE MYLINKS.HTM
EDIT.COM (the file editor belonging to MS-DOS 7.10 - part of W98)
supports calling up to different 9 files from the command line. So
you could write to your ook-file:
[drive:][path]PROGRAM.EXE MYLINKS.HTM NEWLINKS.HTM
With in the editor you switch between the files with only one
keystroke. Cut and paste works with CTRL+C/CTRL+V.
4. DGI function
There is one disadvantage with an ook-file: you cannot pass
parameters from Arachne to the programme. If you change the above
file names in ARACHNE.CFG, you have to rewrite also the commands in
the ook-file. And if you want to paste the links to a different file
the command line parameters have to be different. In these cases it
is more reasonable to define a DGI function. Also this programme can
be attached to a hotkey. To ARACHNE.CFG you have to write:
ShiftF7 file://oops\MYEDITOR.DGI
You need not create a batch file, but you must insert an additional
line into MIME.CFG. Otherwise it would not work. This line can
contain variables for instance $b for the currently valid hotlist:
file/MYEDITOR.DGI |@[drive:][path]PROGRAM.EXE
MYLINKS.HTM $b|arachne $l
(put everything into *one* line!)
$b substitutes NEWLINKS.HTM or any other hotlist file defined in
ARACHNE.CFG.
I would very much like to know, how it is possible to pass the name
of the currently displayed file over to the programme. I could not
figure out that yet.
5. Arachne's Quickpad
If you prefer Arachne's internal editor (eg. for its fantastic
national codepage support), there is another comfortable way
to cut'n paste your new bookmarks. The hot key Alt+Q loads the so-
called quickpad file into Arachne's internal editor. You can use it
as a kind of more permanent clipboard. Why not for your new links?
There are two ways to send the new links directly to the quickpad:
a) either you define the name of the quickpad file as your hotlist
in ARACHNE.CFG:
Hotlist QUICKPAD.TXT
b) or you can choose a file name of your own - but then you have to
edit \GUI\QUICKPAD.AH. Change the line:
<TEXTAREA ROWS=34 ARACHNEROWS COLS=74 ARACHNEEDITOR=QUICKPAD.TXT
ACTIVE>
to
<TEXTAREA ROWS=34 ARACHNEROWS COLS=74 ARACHNEEDITOR=NEWLINKS.HTM
ACTIVE>
In Arachne's internal editor you can copy text to clipboard
by highlightening it with mouse or the cursor. Paste it with
CTRL+V.
Christof Lange
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Christof Lange
Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic
phone: (+420-2) 22 78 18 00 / 22 78 20 02
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