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   Kai Richter to Micheal Pierce   
   taglines   
   24 Apr 20 08:59:26   
   
   REPLY: 1:340/201@fidonet 5ea25865   
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   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.4.0-sta 09-04-05   
   Hello Micheal!   
      
   23 Apr 20, Micheal Pierce wrote to Kai Richter:   
      
    KR>> There is. Stop wasting your time of selecting taglines and   
    KR>> disable them. Nobody read them anyway. Just add to your config:   
      
    KR>> TAGLINESUPPORT no   
      
    MP> gee, nice attitude there !!!!   
      
   Yeah, i like the KISS principle, keep it short and simple. ;-)   
      
    MP> taglines are a *feature* some people like them, and a few don't. all   
    MP> I am saying is that there should be a way to randomly choose one more   
    MP> than the first   
      
    MP> time...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
      
   If you want to choose then it is not randomly. You're asking for a dark light.   
      
   You want to choose because you don't like the tagline, don't you? If you don't   
   like a tagline then remove it from your tagline config then there is no need   
   to select another. Easy, isn't it?   
      
   To work around you could use the file import function. Press ALT-i with   
   default config in the editor. Select "File as Text" and choose your tagline   
   file. Delete the unwanted taglines.   
      
   Or to go back to the KISS principle, what about RTFM?   
      
           Taglines are usually one-liner jokes or wisdom or whatever. They serve   
           absolutely no technical function and are considered by some to be   
           waste of diskspace and modem time. In some conferences, they may even   
           be forbidden by the moderator, so if you want to use this feature,   
           check the conference rules first!   
      
           The tagline support in GoldED is currently not very advanced. You can   
   >       define some global taglines and manually select them from a menu,   
           like you can with origins.   
      
   According to my reference docs it should be CTRL-I.   
   (Doesn't work here i think because taglinesupport no.)   
      
   If the system works like the origin system then you could have some kind of   
   sub-menus in the selection window. I have some single ORIGIN lines in the   
   config and then a reference mark to a different file:   
      
   ORIGIN " Monobox "   
   ORIGIN "You did it!"   
   ORIGIN "Seven holy path to hell"   
   ORIGIN "Ride the sky!"   
   ORIGIN @/golded/origin/origins.full.txt   
      
   That shows up as:   
      
   ............. Origins ............   
   .  Monobox                       .   
   . You did it!                    .   
   . Seven holy path to hell        .   
   . Ride the sky!                  .   
   . [origins.full.txt]             .   
   ..................................   
      
   where [origins.full.txt] can be selected and reveals the full list.   
   Within the random system you could use the full list as a reference.   
      
   If the tagline system does work the same way then you could create some kind   
   of quick access list to your favorite selections.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Kai   
      
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