On Wed 6-Dec-06 5:12pm -0600, Robert Bull wrote: > This is my first post here using TB itself, so please bear with me. > > I was a "point" on Fidonet for over ten years, using the mighty GoldED > message editor (I'm one of the few - the proud - the REGISTERED). > GoldED has a basic text editor built-in, rather like TB's. But it also > allowed you to define your own text editor, run as a child process, > feeding the editor with the properly-quoted and reflowed message. I > dislike Windows-style editors. Having "grown up" with DOS, I prefer > WordStar-style. Does TB have any way of defining an external text > editor, so I can continue using my favourite one? > > I have on occasion copied a message via the clipboard and edited it > outside TB, before returning the modified text the same way. I tended > to get "shark's teeth" formatting, whether I used straight paste or > paste formatted. What should I look out for here, please?
When I want to view a long email or program snippet from my editor, I use a Hot Key to Run External Program. I have it run my editor on the file "%1" and call a macro to strip the headers and everything at or below the "cut mark." (If I need any of that, I can get it back with an undo.) I use PowerPro to copy the text of a reply to the clipboard and start my edit with a command to paste the clipboard. I also have a simple macro in the editor to finish up by copying the contents of its buffer to the clipboard and close down discarding the file being edited. All I have to do is bring focus back to the TB! replay (which is still highlighted) and press Ctrl-v and sent it. -- Best regards, Bill TB! Pro :beta: 3.86.8 ALPHA (beta) BayesIt! 0.8.4 X-Ray 1.4.0.0 XP Pro SP2 POP3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
