On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:51:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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?

The 'hard coded' file name used to be 'textarea.txt'

Thanks to Clarence suggestion...... it is now 'quickpad.txt'.
(see changes.txt in your arachne_main_directory) <g>

But now that you mention how usefull it would be
to make it 'user configurable'.

How about a new Arachne.cfg variable for the next version?

EditorFilename [path]file-name-of-choice
(if not found in Arachne.cfg. quickpad.txt would still be used)

This would be just as easy a change to do as was Https2Http :)))

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