On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:42:46 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: > What I would like to do when I'm finished reading all of the messages I > want to read in my Folder(s), is right click each Folder and choose > "Mark All Messages As Read", without always having to confirm that > process. I've looked but cannot find any way to disable the dialog box. > It's a minor inconvenience I know, but becomes irritating if I have a > lot of Folders to do it on. There's no way at present to disable that confirmation dialog. > In addition, even though I have set the options for removing old > messages and then compressing each Folder on exit, the old messages > remain. In the Folder specific options, I have not checked any boxes > pertaining to old messages, as I don't want to keep any old messages > that I haven't parked, yet I can't get rid of them unless I hit > Folder/Empty. There again, I'm met with yet another confirmation dialog > box, asking me to confirm what I just asked the Program to do? Any way > to _turn_ that one off as well? Your folder specific option to 'remove old messages on exit' doesn't work? Hmmm. Remember the word 'exit' isn't referring to exiting the folder but exiting The Bat!. It works fine for me. > Lastly, can someone explain to me what "Justify on Auto Wrap" > under Utilities means? Justify means that each line in a paragraph is made to contain the same amount of characters, keeping in mind that spaces and punctuation's are characters. "Justify on Autowrap" simply autowraps your lines and justifies them while doing so. > I've looked in the help section, but words like wrap, justify and > auto, bring up nothing, and there doesn't seem to be a Help section > under Editor Preferences... nor does Help/Editor specifically > mention this feature. Yeah, I understand. Most of what I know about the editor was through experimentation and detecting the pattern in it's quirky behavior; the method in it's apparent madness. :)) > I have so many problems with the Editor, in that spacing gets all > screwed up... word separation seems random... some by 2, while others > have the traditional 1 space separation, Well, if you have 'justify on autowrap' enabled, the editor will calculate how best to make each line have use the same amount of characters. It will added spaces between words to fill in the extra spaces. This isn't unique to The Bat!. It's just that extra spaces are more apparent when using a fixed width font, hence why I don't justify when using a fixed width font. To show you what I mean, go to your favourite word processor, open a document and justify a paragraph after changing to a fixed width font. > and my signature is so bunged up, that I have to cut it out of all my > messages. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong... I have auto-format > and auto-wrap selected, but my problems must have something to do > with the Format Block option, as I can't seem to get that to default to > left... I have to highlight each and every paragraph, then choose > Utilities/Format Block/Left. The autoformat function is very funny. I had written in an earlier message quite extensively on the autoformat's behaviour. The autoformat feature may be what is garbling your signature among other things. It's rather tedious to search the online TBUDL message archive with my bandwidth in order to give you a link so I'll give you the message as a text file attachment. There's a lot more to find on it in the message archives by using 'autoformat' as the search string. > I've left this last paragraph alone, so you can see what I mean. I like > TB in a lot of respects, but it sure can get frustrating to use!!! -- -=Allie=- | Using The Bat! v1.38e mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) [ Solution: A more subtle problem. ] ____ -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------
Date sent: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:31:02 -0500 From: Ali Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: E-mailaholics Int'l To: Michael Heydekamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: German help file (was: Keyboard Shortcut to move to next unread message?) On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 02:47:37 +0100, Michael Heydekamp wrote: [....] > Now to the next formatting issue: What exactly does "Auto-format" (same > preference section as "justify on wrap") do? This is one beast that may very well infuriate you more than anything else. :) My secret is to keep it disabled by default, get really acquainted with the toggle switch Shift+Ctrl+F, and enable it when I need it. You may notice that if you type some text, it gets wrapped at your defined right margin limit. Now, if you start inserting text within one of these wrapped lines, everything begins getting messed up and the wrapping is all helter-skelter. The autoformat feature prevents this, which sounds wonderful. Unfortunately you have to play by some rules and work within certain constraints with it enabled. It's these rules and constraints that make you either not use it or get acquainted with the toggle switch. a) It is impossible to type this with autoformat enabled. You have to just try it to see what I'm talking about. Hard returns made before the predefined line limit are all ignored. b) Your paragraphs need to be separated by a blank line or else the autoformat feature will format your paragraphs into one big paragraph. This is done without regard for previously formatted text which may be just below where you are typing and this includes quoted material. Alt+L works in a similar fashion but at least it works only when you hit it so you usually make sure things are in order before using it. Just to illustrate this point, enable the autoformat feature and place the cursor just above a paragraph of quoted text, or any paragraph for that matter. At the first keystroke, the paragraph gets reformatted to include the text which you are typing! You therefore have to ensure that a blank line is above and below where you are typing to prevent this very disconcerting effect. :) Hey Tracer!!! I see that you cannot use Alt+L or autoformat because you don't separate your personal text from the quotes by a blank line. If you hit alt+l serious effects would occur. :))))))) -- Ali Martin | Using The Bat! v1.38e mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) [ A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ] ____ -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------
