Hi Steve,
On 17 January 2000 at 00:41:56 GMT -0800 (which was 08:41 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points:
SL> Losing the current marked text. Why bother? Ever try to remark 9
SL> pages of text because of a missed line? You're also assuming that
SL> "home" takes to where I want, which it does not. In this one
SL> case...
Just for the sake of pedantry here, the TB editor does have the
persistent block option which *will* allow that. If only the "jump to
block start" Ctrl-Q/B worked as advertised <sigh>. However - on with
the debate, which I don't mean to disrupt in the least with this
random interjection.
SL> Release shift, PGUP 9 times, up arrow, SHIFT, PgDn 9 times,
SL> CNTL-C, move to place I want it, Shift-INS.
SL> In joe:
SL> ^U 9 times, up arrow, ^K^B, move to where I want it, ^K^C.
Almost the same in the TB editor with Persistent block mode on.
I do accept, in general, the argument regarding the potential fluency
of use with an external editor. Personally, I wouldn't switch off the
TB internal editor, which I find to be streets ahead of most text
editors for writing e-mail, based on the Delphi IDE key mapping (I
program in Delphi, so it's an easy switch for me) and is only
frustrating when auto-format runs riot.
Externally - ashamed to say I still use Brief for any serious editing
I need to do :-(. I set it up to match Vedit when I switched over
about 14 years ago and can't get off that key mapping. Very sad. I
certainly wouldn't want to use it to edit my e-mail messages
(shudder). But that's just me.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Co-moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
www: http://www.silverstones.com
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