On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:55:18 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam,
> Be a good boy and go to bed. It gets tiresome pointing out that you > don't know what your are talking about when you take up so much space. > 1. The editor deals only with the block of text. > 2. What you are referring to as "the internal editor" is a GUI, a form, > an HTP or AH file that just happens to use the editor to put text > in the body of the message. Yep, I know that. What would you call it, the "form editor"? > 3. Your hand-holding "walk through" is gratuitous, showing your > assumption that some of us have no idea how to use Arachne or > how to use a non-dozerwarez computer. IOW, it is purely insulting > to people like me, Clarence, Glenn, and most others on the list! Nope, I was merely explaining how my external editor APM works, and I was warning about how the APM should not be installed in the "normal" way on recent versions of Arachne that have come out in the last three years or so. The APM was designed specifically for an older version. Not everybody else sets up their external editor to work the way mine does. Glenn liked how I described it and he has said that he had set up his external editor feature to work like mine, although his setup is not exactly the same. Close and very similar, yes. > Go away! Some of us are working and you're cluttering the place up! You still didn't explain why you are so perturbed about having to use the "internal editor" by default, and why you feel it is such a hassle to simply punch the "EDITOR" button to invoke your external editor. BTW, the system date for your computer appears to be one day ahead of mine. Sam Heywood > ==== > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:18:53 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> Why would you want to select the external editor as the default? >> The internal editor is best to use for starting a new message or for >> beginning a reply to a message because it provides special blocks for >> completing your headers, indicatig your attachment, if any, and for >> selecting the type of encoding for the attachment. Also it has a >> special block for indicating the file to be used as a sig or tagline. >> When replying to a message the internal editor has the advantage of >> automagically emplacing the text which you most probably would want to >> use for your "To:" and your "From:" and your "Subject:" headers. While >> working within the internal editor you have the option of modifying >> these headers. >> I always like to use the internal editor for starting a new message or >> for replying to a message or for forwarding a message. In the case >> replys and forwards I simply start the internal editor and then punch >> the button for the external editor to complete the text. Then I save >> the text, and next I punch the "SAVE TO OUTBOX" button. For composing >> new messages I use the internal editor for entering my header >> information. Then I save the message to the outbox. Next I bring the >> the message up in the outbox and I select "MODIFY". This will call the >> internal editor. Then I punch the button for the external editor. I >> enter my text for the message body and save it and then I punch the >> "SAVE TO OUTBOX" button. This system is so easy to use. I don't >> understand why anyone should have any complaints about it. >> The external editor APM that I have installed is EXTED150.APM, which >> I mentioned in a recent message. You need to exercise care in how you >> install it. I also talked about that in my recent message and I >> presented a brief "how-to". >> Glenn asked me for my copy of EXTED150.APM and my MAIL.HTM because he >> wanted to take a look at them. I zipped up those two files and I >> sent them to him. -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
