Glenn, See all the junk below? It appeared in textarea when I hit "C" to compose a message to my MD.
Your "fix" is causing more problems than it cured ... including the fact that the edress book isn't an active textarea where I can write or import any text ... at least not in the "compose" screen. l.d. ==== 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 either, and that is pretty sucky ... 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. :~< l.d. ===== >> P.S. One thing I have missed, for some time now, is having the ability >> 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 >> online html text area was saved as textarea.tmp, and I could shell from >> Arachne and save that file under a name-of-choice for future reference; >> that ability has been gone for a number of versions. It would be worth >> considering reimplimenting if the other suggested changes are made ... >> because there wouldn't be any likelyhood of that TMP file getting >> stuffed into some internal Arachne form by accident. > Clarence , Bernie and I fixed that in v1.71 :))) > BTW, > Did you try my little "fix" for seeing if a file was saved correctly > with F2(saveas) ? > If so, > Do you like it ? > -- > Glenn > http://arachne.cz/ > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm > http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
