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   August Abolins to mark lewis   
   testing new message   
   02 Apr 19 23:42:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d7080449   
   REPLY: 1:3634/12.73 5ca41cec   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.36 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   Hello mark!   
      
   AA>> Hmm..  W at the Folder level creates a fresh new message.  It would   
   AA>> make more sense to me if W could be invoked while viewing the Message   
   AA>> list.   
      
   > i've never seen one that does that...   
      
   > FWIW: the INSert key may also start a new message... that's a traditional   
   > key mapping in all of the sysop-side editors i've ever used...   
      
   You can bet that I've also never seen so many non-standard editing key     
   sequences.  LOL   
      
   Even Wordperfect and Wordstar managed to share the same key-combos.   
      
   BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features.  For a program that  was initially     
   released in early 1992, and also being a full-fledged mail and newsreader     
   for the Internet - supporting external clients sharing messages using POP3     
   / SMTP (mail) and NNTP (news) protocols.. it's impressive.   
      
   If it was as "complete" and apparently bugfree as it appears now, it could     
   have been my "user" editor of choice.    But, back then we had other fine     
   emerging offline readers/editors to work with too.   
      
   INSert key has a special function in oxp.  (I don't know how to pop out of     
   this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet, otherwise I     
   would tell you exactly what INS does.)   
      
   Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp.  I would refer to     
   it more often if it had all the menus and submenus.  The menu structure is     
   phenominal - that is, so many levels and features.  Most it, once     
   configured, probably never needs to be reviewed again.   
      
   From the guide:   
      
   Ctl-KC - copy block to cursor position   
   Ctl-KV - move block to cursor position   
   Ctl-KY - delete block   
   Ctl-KW - write block to file   
   Ctl-KO - ROT13 encrypt block   
   Ctl-QB - move cursor to beginning of block   
   Ctl-QK - move cursor to end of block   
      
   I like to work with blocks, inserting text, moving paragraphs around, etc.     
   I don't think I will ever remember the above.  But the context sensitive     
   help invoked with F1 is pretty good.   
      
   Regards,   
     ../|ug   
      
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