On Sun 5-Jun-05 10:50pm -0500, Greg Strong wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:22:45 -0500 GMT(6/5/2005, 8:22 PM -0600 GMT),
> per mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill McCarthy wrote:
>> I also disable auto-format. However, Alt-L fails to
>> preserve two spaces between sentences. So if I use it, I
>> need to go back and add back the spaces. This can make
>> some lines longer than my line length, so more wasted
>> time fixing that :-(
>>
>> Without handling this common format rule, this editor
>> sucks!
> When I first starting using TB I hated MicroEd. In fact I
> was ready to give TB the heave ho. One of the reasons was
> the two spaces after a sentence when using Alt-L.
Perhaps "sucks" was a bit strong, Greg :-)
Except for the two space thing, it is pretty good. But
without the ability to reformat, it is seriously flawed.
Even if it had that ability, it is nice to be able to use a
real editor for more complicated tasks. That's why a simple
interface to one's editor of choice is such an important
feature.
I get around this problem with just a few keystrokes and one
mouse click:
Ctrl-ac copies the text to the clipboard
Click on a Win quick launch icon to open my
editor with the clipboard pasted in.
Perform my editing, copy everything back to
the clipboard and quit my edit. That's
performed in my editor (Gvim) with:
ggyG:q!
Ctrl-v replaces with edited text
Although this is quite a simple alternative, I would still
like the external editing call that was part of PMmail.
--
Best regards,
Bill
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