Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:40:36, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> ****************************************************************** >> This piece of text is generated by the editor of Norton commander. >> I come from within Arachne to Norton by pressing Shift+F10. >> This mail came in as 8843382.cnm so I directed Norton to 8843382.cnm in >> the mail directory in Arachne. I guess you are saying that you have to write down the filename of the incoming message and then manually type it into the "Load file ..." window as Norton's editor opens. > I came back in Arachne where I left it... reading the mail and the > unchanged message is on the screen. > Pressed R for reload => new text made with external editor is included. Yes, with you so far. > To add this comment: I pressed "Reply" and the added text got >'s at the > left side. ...but with the added text now "pretending" to be part of the quotes from original message. > The file name has been changed to 08843826.tbs and I copied it with > Norton Commander to QEDIT, a popular external editor. What do you mean you copied it to QEDIT? Are you saying you used QEDIT to open the file for editing? > BTW: the Arachne hotkeys in the editor behave like the WordStar > hotkeys... Yeah, bleeding awful aren't they? <GGGGG> > This mail is answered with 3 external editors and the Arachne internal > editor. No problems were encountered and no strange characters were > introduced at any stage of the processing. POINT 1: No problems except for the need to write down and manually re-enter the name of the file at various stages. As I know all too well, that path is fraught with danger to me. It's bad enough when it is something like a URL that contains recognizable words, but a string of numbers is all too easily muddled. POINT 2: No strange characters were introduced because.... > And, as already stated... the internal editor is fine to me and very OTOH, in my case the editor will sometimes add a few stray characters, but these are usually edited out fairly easily. The worst thing is when it copies a block of text to parts of the message where they don't belong, sometimes multiple copies, and often overwriting the original text. When this gets too bad I sometimes have to cancel the reply, and go back to the original message and start the reply process from scratch. Unfortunately if it occurs if I am editing a message in the Outbox and I have already deleted the incoming message I am replying to, there is no going back. > usefull to change and compose HTML files within Arachne. I have the external editor enabled in the Options/Pref&Perf, so editing or composing HTML files is always done directly by the QEDIT. I find it so much more flexible for almost any purpose than the internal editor. It also allows me to open multiple windows so I can select/copy/paste from other documents very easily. Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --