Hi list,

whenever you load the file quickpad.ah in Arachne (the
quickest way to do so is to press Alt+Q) Arachne's internal editor
opens a kind of clipboard called QuickPad. By default Arachne uses
as clipboard the file quickpad.txt in Arachne's main directory.
It is, however, even possible to change this file name by
editing one line in quickpad.ah, eg.:

<TEXTAREA ROWS=32 ARACHNEROWS COLS=74 ARACHNEEDITOR=D:\X.TXT ACTIVE>

makes quickpad.ah point to the file d:\x.txt. This file then loads
into the internal editor whenever you press Alt+Q. If you try to
integrate Arachne with other DOS programs and exchange data
between them the use of a clipboard can become quite interesting.

Unfortunately the customization of the clipboard's file name does not
extend to the copy and paste function of the internal editor.
Pressing Ctrl+W or Ctrl+R while working with the internal editor will
still default to the file name quickpad.txt. This seems to be hard
coded.

Should we consider this a missing feature of Arachne?

Regards,
Christof Lange

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