Goodness gracious, me oh my ... It seems to be working!  I'm using my q-edit,
which I became addicted to long ago. <G>  Well time to realign this paragraph
and see if this flies.

If it does, then all I have to do is some code comparison between Glenn's
ah/htp setups and my personal design. <BG>

l.d.
====
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 18:49:12 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 17:38:10 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

>> On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 14:58:53 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> Ah ..... Insight just did the other thing I hate - loss of linewrap.
>> <snip>

>>> I doubt it was Insight that was the problem. The Arachne editor is crap.
>>> Select (and use) an external editor if you can't tolerate it.

>> I've wanted to do that for years -- literally!  But even with help and
>> instructions and samples and the option in Arachne "set up" I've never
>> managed to do it easily. <big sigh>

>> Has the "use outside editor" option been improved in 1.71 so that the
>> choice is implementable without three or four hours of tweak-this &
>> tweak-that and "it probably still won't work" ???

> Make backup copies of these 5 files.

> Drive:\arachne_main_dir\REPLY.HTP
> Drive:\arachne_main_dir\RESEND.HTP
> Drive:\arachne_main_dir\SYSTEM/GUI/TEXTEDIT.AH
> Drive:\arachne_main_dir\SYSTEM/GUI/SENDMAIL.AH
> Drive:\arachne_main_dir\SYSTEM/GUI/SENDFILE.AH

> Grab exeditgm.zip from
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/exeditgm.htm

> Unzip it into your Arachne_main_dir using:
> pkunzip -d exeditgm.zip drive:\arachne_main_dir\

> Change xedit.bat so that it points to the editor of your choice.

> --- current xedit.bat ---
> c:\pedit\pedit.exe %1
> _________________________

> --- contents of the zip ---
> Length Method Size Ratio   Date   Time  CRC-32  Attr Name
> -----  ------ ---- -----   ----   ---- -------- ---- ----
> 2311 DeflatX  794 66%  09-08-02 17:56 c4a4d327 --w- REPLY.HTP
> 2357 DeflatX  844 65%  09-08-02 17:58 9d55fbc0 --w- RESEND.HTP
> 663 DeflatX  346 48%  09-08-02 18:08 8f66cb3d --w- SYSTEM/GUI/TEXTEDIT.AH
> 2389 DeflatX  833 66%  09-08-02 17:41 859b2379 --w- SYSTEM/GUI/SENDMAIL.AH
> 3493 DeflatX 1039 71%  09-08-02 18:13 ea0f6146 --w- SYSTEM/GUI/SENDFILE.AH
> 24 Stored    24  0%  02-10-99 00:50 11e214ec --w- XEDIT.BAT
> 134 DeflatX   66 51%  09-08-02 18:09 c14e1358 --w- EXEDIT.MIM
> ------        ---- ---                              -------
> 11371        3946  66%                                   7
> ____________________________

> --- exedit.mim contains the 3 lines for adding at the top of mime.cfg ---
> file/mxedit.dgi   |@call xedit.bat mail.tmp
> file/cxedit.dgi   |@call xedit.bat textarea.tmp
> file/txedit.dgi   |@call xedit.bat $l
> ___________________

> That's it.

> You will now have the option of using the Arachne internal editor
> function or using your exeternal editor instead.

> It works on all of these:

> reply to eMail                             (mxedit.dgi)
> forward eMail                              (mxedit.dgi)
> modify/resend eMail                        (mxedit.dgi)
> compose new eMail                          (cxedit.dgi)
> send files via eMail                       (cxedit.dgi)
> F4 edit of any currently displayed page    (txedit.dgi)

> --
> Glenn
> http://arachne.cz/
> http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
> http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/

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