On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:39:00 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:54:16 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> <snip> >> Ship %whatever% to editor >> on exit from editor, display > <snip> > All of what you describe for excternal editing is done in this package. > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/exeditgm.htm Nope. Not so. I had hopes, since it was realatively simple, but ... <BIG SIGH> Still cannot select external editor as default. Still have to punch a damn button to get there, and still have to have the batch file correctly written & placed in root. And naming the file being created as mail.tmp is pretty far from what I envisioned ... but then you don't go to default external editor the way I outlined either... ... so the ah/htp has already been written to screen, but any changes made in advance, any additional corrections to top fields are lost on return from external editor [just like normally shelling out from all the mail htp/ah forms] ... so quoting still isn't enabled in external editor either, and that is pretty sucky [why do you think I wanted discrete file name extensions ?? .. so the file edited would be the same file whether internal or external editor was selected]. ... and I'm about to go back to the setup I had, with my htp/ah files the way I liked them, and knowing that if I really NEED the external editor I can save the textarea to file of my name choice, shell out, edit it, and bring it back into the htp/ah textarea after I've cleaned it out. Maybe the changes do some of the things I mentioned, but I don't see any reason to test further. No quotes possible, have to redo all the non-textarea fields upon return if any changes were made -- or remember to only make changes after using external editor -- etc. If you're not clear what I was trying my damndest to make clear, write me off-list and I'll try to clarify further. <snip> >> to keep track of what I've put into an html textarea box ... short of >> doing a screen print, that is... It usta was that what I wrote in an <snip> > Clarence , Bernie and I fixed that in v1.71 :))) Well I haven't seen 1.71 ... AFAIK, it's not available to the general beta tester population. But that is so minor compared to the rest ... > BTW, > Did you try my little "fix" for seeing if a file was saved correctly > with F2(saveas) ? Nope ... you didn't include SAVEAS.AH in either of the downloadable packages for external editor, so I'd have no way of knowing. If it was a matter of my failing to make myself clear, and you really want to get Arachne using a decent approach to external editor selection, write me off list & I'll try again. Of course I didn't save the message I originally sent, so I may have forgotten by now. I've got a crappy headache and ... :< l.d.
