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   Hello August!   
      
   *** Sunday 23.01.22 at 20:19, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    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.   
      
    AA> I thought YOU were the liason-man for OpenXP things.   
      
   Sometimes but not always :)   
      
   In this instance, I thought it would be better if you were to ask him     
   directly.   
      
    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 .   
      
    AA> Excellent.  Did you include that as a tenny tiny detail with   
    AA> your main suggestion?  ;)   
      
   Nope.   
      
    AA> Personally, I haven't used Alt-G (Glossary) much at all. It   
    AA> *does* seem like a handy way to dump pre-defined strings in a   
    AA> message though.   
      
   I use it a fair bit.   
      
    MF>> ..somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also   
    MF>> be defined at the single message level..   
      
    AA> OK! Too bad you didn't describe how it would "function" (which   
    AA> key strokes to trigger it, Alt-G as above, or sourcing from a   
    AA> oring-lines.txt file, etc)   
      
   Yeah well, at the time, I just wanted to keep it simple.   
      
    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.   
      
    AA> Hopefully this is then just the 1st baby-step to make it more   
    AA> functional - especially to make lock in and stay put once the   
    AA> text is entered and not overwritten by the global setting if   
    AA> the message needs to be re-edited.   
      
   Hopefully yes but that will largely depend on what bells 'n whistles users     
   want ;)   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
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