[arachne] Re: EXTERNAL EDITOR

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In response to my inquiry, with respect to the procedure for setting up 
the Arachne External Editor:  on Oct. 3, 2007, Greg Mayman said
"For email, edit the XEDIT.BAT to point to your editor.  For example 
mine has a single line: C:\q\q.exe %1"
This allows the editor to be called by clicking on the "external editor 
button in the email edit screen.

That sounds simple, and I tried to follow those directions, but 
apparently must have misunderstood something because it would not work 
for me.
What I wanted to do was to establish my batch file, that I use as my 
Compuserve editor email editor VDE72.BAT, which is located at the 2nd 
location in my DOS path and may be further described as 
c:\bat\vde72.bat.  That works flawlessly as an editor as used elsewhere 
and has the advantage of having access to a full size an online 
dictionary and which has always worked well in all the other several 
situations in which I use it.  BDE72.BAT has the additional advantage of 
being set up for email at 72 CPI.
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FOLLOWING IS THE LIST OF VDE72.BAT:

EM VDE72.BAT: TO LOAD, USE, AND UNLOAD, C:\VDE72\VDE.EXE WITH A FULL
EM COMPLIMENT OF ASSISTS INCLUDING DATETIME, EDT, VDEBLUON (key
redefinitions
EM similar to Peachtext), ERIC MEYER'S FIXCAPS TO PREVENT SHIFTS WHEN
CAPSLOCK
EM IS ON FROM PRODUCING LOWER CASE CHARACTERS.
EM SCREEN & PRINTING WIDTH 72 CHARACTERS SUITABLE FOR MOST EMAIL (THAT COPY
EM OF VDE.EXE IS SET UP WITH 72 CHARACTERS SCREEN & PRINTING WIDTH).
EM Revised to add emm386 auto before NEWKEY & other TSR'S & to add EMM386
EM OFF after all TSR'S to provide more memory for NEWKEY.  BCM 22/01/2002
EM Revised BCM 07/07/2002 to add first command line of CALL NEWKEYOF to
EM ensure no recursion occurs if NEWKEY is already in use for another
EM programme.
EM REVISED BCM 1138 07/07/2002
EM ***********************************************************************
CHO OFF
CALL NEWKEYOF
CALL DATETIME OFF
emm386 auto
CALL DATETIME ON 24
CALL CAPSHIFT ON
CALL C:\NEWKEY\VDEBLUON
EDT
C:\VDE72\VDE %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
EDT /R
EM PEACHOFF JUST REMOVES NEWKEY
CALL PEACHOFF
CALL CAPSHIFT OFF
CALL DATETIME OFF
emm386 off
CLS
CALL COLORONN
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The existing, unchanged XEDIT.BAT was as follows:
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cho off
if not exist c:\pedit\pedit.exe goto err
c:\pedit\pedit.exe %1
rem change drive:\path\filename
rem in both lines above to point to your editor of choice
goto done
:err
echo No external editor setup
pause
:done
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I modified that to be as follows:
cho off
if not exist c:\bat\vde72.bat go to err
c:\bat\vde72.bat
rem change drive:\path\filename
rem in both lines above to point to your editor of choice
goto done
:err
echo No external editor setup
pause
:done
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I suspect I did something wrong immediately above, but I do not know 
what mistake I might have made.

If anyone can see the flaws in the logic of my attempt to establish an 
external editor above, I would appreciate being enlightened in that 
respect
Brian Murphy
BCMURPHYOMPUSERVE.COM
  
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