Subj : adhoc origin line feature To : Martin Foster From : August Abolins Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 20:19:00 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! -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.51 * Origin: System Up Time: 6 D, 10 H, 18 M (2:221/1.58) .