Hello Clive!

On Saturday, October 30, 2004, 9:04 AM, you wrote:

MB>> How could the View window distinguish between a legitimate,
MB>> long-standing, conventional use of the colon and the hi-jacked
MB>> Smiley use of enclosing colons?

CT> These thingies take the form of a colon, some text and another
CT> colon, don't they? I can't think of a single sentence written in
CT> English that would have two colons following each other like that.

You're right. I can't either.

CT> I wouldn't have thought it was that difficult to write a rule to
CT> identify the format - but what do I know?

Me, too. Ignorant Mary is my first name! So--maybe one of us should
post a query on tbtech about it?

The last thing I want to do is annoy friends like you (or, perhaps
even worse, enemies lol if I have any). So I would like the filter to
be available and possibly even added to TB!'s set of MACROS.

MB>> This is an old horse, of course, and neither of us wishes to beat
MB>> it to death!

CT> Oh, but I do, Mary.

Okay, MOG! I shall assist you in the endeavor. LOL

(For the benefit of tbtech subscribers, where I'm CCing this post, MOG
has been variously defined on this thread, first by Clive as
"miserable old git," and then by another poster as "Messenger of
God.")

Can anyone write a filter that will remove "any text preceded
immediately by a colon plus followed immediately by a colon" from
Clive's View Folder window, in which he uses Plain Text View?

-- 
Best regards,
Mary
:Trill:  http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/PCWSmileys.php
The Bat! 3.0.2.4 Rush on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2






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