Subj : testing new message To : August Abolins From : mark lewis Date : Wed Apr 03 2019 00:24:06 On 2019 Apr 02 23:42:00, you wrote to me: 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. ml>> i've never seen one that does that... ml>> FWIW: the INSert key may also start a new message... that's a ml>> traditional key mapping in all of the sysop-side editors i've ever ml>> used... AA> You can bet that I've also never seen so many non-standard editing key AA> sequences. LOL hehehe... AA> Even Wordperfect and Wordstar managed to share the same key-combos. not in my experience... i detested WP because it didn't use the standard touch-typist keys that i learned from my programming editors... eg: these wordstar touch-typist keystrokes ^KB block begin ^KK block end ^KC block copy ^KV block move ^KW block write ^KY block delete i don't recall the ones for WP but they were mostly Fxx key combinations... the worst one was moving the Help from the F1 key... that really really stunk... AA> BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features. For a program that was initially AA> released in early 1992, and also being a full-fledged mail and AA> newsreader for the Internet - supporting external clients sharing AA> messages using POP3 / SMTP (mail) and NNTP (news) protocols.. it's AA> impressive. there's a lot of FTN tools like that... GoldEd is one that also has a lot of those capabilities... i only use the standard FTN stuff with it, though... AA> If it was as "complete" and apparently bugfree as it appears now, it AA> could have been my "user" editor of choice. But, back then we had AA> other fine emerging offline readers/editors to work with too. yup... AA> INSert key has a special function in oxp. (I don't know how to pop AA> out of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet, AA> otherwise I would tell you exactly what INS does.) can't open another window and look at the help? i have no less than a dozen windows open over here... some running specific monitoring tasks and others waiting on input or something to do ;) AA> Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp. I would refer AA> to it more often if it had all the menus and submenus. The menu AA> structure is phenominal - that is, so many levels and features. Most AA> it, once configured, probably never needs to be reviewed again. AA> From the guide: AA> Ctl-KC - copy block to cursor position AA> Ctl-KV - move block to cursor position AA> Ctl-KY - delete block AA> Ctl-KW - write block to file AA> Ctl-KO - ROT13 encrypt block AA> Ctl-QB - move cursor to beginning of block AA> Ctl-QK - move cursor to end of block standard wordstar stuff... looks almost like mine i listed above ;) AA> I like to work with blocks, inserting text, moving paragraphs around, AA> etc. I don't think I will ever remember the above. But the context AA> sensitive help invoked with F1 is pretty good. :) )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... When is a mouse a rat? When it eats memory! --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .