MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet f8b40fc8   
   REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet f892ff54   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Martin!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 19.01.22 - 13:59, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> But then why not build it so that it extracts predefined text   
    AA>> (that is known to fit) in that space?   
      
    MF> Yes, why not?   
    MF> Perhaps you could ask the developer about that.   
      
   I thought YOU were the liason-man for OpenXP things.   
      
      
    MF> A better solution would have been to implement something   
    MF> along the lines of the Glossary feature, whereby all the   
    MF> user needs to do is to press  from within the   
    MF> editor and then select an item from the pre-defined list   
    MF> that pops up. In this case, it would be a list of origin   
    MF> lines pre-defined by the user in an ascii text file, e.g.   
    MF> "origins.txt" and the key-press could be .   
      
   Excellent.  Did you include that as a tenny tiny detail with     
   your main suggestion?  ;)   
      
   Personally, I haven't used Alt-G (Glossary) much at all. It     
   *does* seem like a handy way to dump pre-defined strings in a     
   message though.   
      
      
    MF> ..somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also   
    MF> be defined at the single message level..   
      
   OK! Too bad you didn't describe how it would "function" (which     
   key strokes to trigger it, Alt-G as above, or sourcing from a     
   oring-lines.txt file, etc)   
      
      
    MF> ..and I duly put in a feature request for a *simple*,   
    MF> *basic* means of doing so. He duly obliged by implementing   
    MF> exactly what I'd asked for, no more, no less.   
      
   Hopefully this is then just the 1st baby-step to make it more     
   functional - especially to make lock in and stay put once the     
   text is entered and not overwritten by the global setting if     
   the message needs to be re-edited.   
      
      
    MF> -+- OpenXP 5.0.51   
    MF>  + Origin: Watch   This   Space (2:310/31.3)   
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   
      
   I just might from now on!     
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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