Hi Bill, On 5/6/2005 11:38 PM -0500, you wrote: > 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
I used that editor for a while. I installed it, demystified it and was impressed. It sort of consumes you, that editor. :) However, it's not unlike MicroEd in some ways: - it's approach is very different and if you get very good at it, you'll not want to use anything else. - it has an incredibly steep learning curve. However, if surmounted, it's knowledge well worth the effort if you do a lot of text editing. It made me appreciate MicroEd that much more since I had to be creating macros to do some of what MicroEd just does. It actually made me appreciated MicroEd that much more. MicroEd is a little gem of a tool *specifically designed* for e-mail editing. It will do things with quoted text so easily, and give you a WYSIWYG type format of your mail without any effort on your part. If you do heavy nested replying, where you split and splice blocks of quoted material, then MicroEd is indispensable. Same for simple lists, banged together ASCII tables or similar schematics. The only thing I've missed with Gvim for e-mail editing is that it ignores the '-' when I create the two item list as above. As a result, the second lines are auto-indented. Of course, if you have already mastered GVim and use it for e-mail, BTW, then no problem. :) However, you'll likely be saying the same things of GVim as I'm saying about MicroEd if someone were to try Gvim and complain about the way it behaves and does things so differently. :) -- Allie Martin System specs: http://www.ac-martin.com/sysspecs.htm -=-=- Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
