RG>> It seems the other way around here! MicroEd goes off the edge of RG>> the screen, Windows compatible is "comfortable"! MR> How large/small is the size you have your composition window set at? MR> If it's at least a few characters greater than your line wrap setting MR> (and providing that you use the recommended "auto-wrap" option in the MR> MicroED editor), then you'll see your text wrap as you type. It will MR> look to your recipients just as it looks to you as you compos My composition window is set to FULL SCREEN, baby! RG>> I will try here to use MicroEd (and ALT-L) as a test but the editing RG>> keys seem not to follow convention. MR> As Allie mentioned...you only need to use "Alt-L" if you want to MR> re-format a paragraph to your wrap setting. The keyboard editing command incompatabilities go WAY, WAY beyond TB! having allocated a keyboard command for a particular function!
In fact, almost ALL of the arrow-key commands do not work as they are supposed to. Highlighting, deleting, and inserting characters don't work as they should either in the MicroEd editor. No wonder I've resisted using it so (to the great consternation of many of you, who I love anyway). This, in fact is another topic: The Bat! does not corretly use STANDARD editing keystrokes. Watch your in-boxes! Try cutting and pasting (esp between the body, the TO:, FROM:, SUBJECT, etc)! Try highlighting ANY of the hedaer fields when creating a message (to, say delete one or 2 names from a list of addressees or to shorten the subject line)! MR> Here's an example of Alt+L's usefulness. I've copied and pasted AM>> and the optimum wrapping point is at 72 to 76 characters. MR> Now isn't that nice? :-) Nothing looked different to me between in either of your 2 examples! MR> Another option you have, .... Auto-format MR> can be very useful if you want your paragraphs to be dynamically MR> need Alt-L to re-format the text as you would if you had used only MR> However, if you ever want to make a "list" of items (often with each MR> line being shorter than your line wrap setting), one after the other MR> with no blank spaces between the lines, you can toggle on/off MR> "auto-format" with "Shift+Ctrl+F" ...unless some other application MR> uses the shortcut, and in that case, you can edit the default shortcut MR> to something else (edit shortcuts in "View/Edit Shortcuts" or get MR> there by using "Alt-F12"). OH MY GOD. Too many things to have to consider for a simpleton like me to have to worry about if I just want to write a letter! I am a user, damn it, not a programmer! -- Rich ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
