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- From: ntring@bruny.mpx.com.au (Nick Ring)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Ed and Arexx
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 20:22:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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- Robert Rohde (n4297@RW320B48.rz.fhtw-berlin.de) wrote:
- : I recently started experimenting with Ed's ARexxPort and find Ed's
- : capabilities with custom-menus, hotkeys and invoking ARexxScripts
- : enormous.
-
- : Nevertheless I encountered some problems:
-
- : 1.) I want to display a message on Ed's bottomline using:
- : "sm" "\Hello\"
- : Sending the above to Ed results in deleting the bottomline, but
- : nothing further.
- : Can you help?
-
- I have also just lately been muching around with ARexx and Ed, and I couldn't
- for the life of me, get the 'SM' command to work at all. Everytime I sent a
- 'SM' commands, it just cleared the status line, which is annoying, as some of
- my scripts can take a little bit of time to see any results.
-
- : 2.) I'm really annoyed of Ed's shitty wordwrap, because I don't manage
- : to turn it of.
- : I tried changing the right margin using the extended (ESC) command
- : "SR150" or the like and also (ESC) "EX" witch is supposed to
- : toggle wordwrap (though I don't know any parameters for "EX").
- : When inside a line inserting something the right side seems to shift
- : properly behind the right windowframe, but typing a long line
- : without inserting, Ed wraps the line (f**k).
- : Help me!
-
- "EX" only toggles for that line. As soon as you move off that line, it defaults
- back to the original "SR" setting.
- I had your problem, but opposite. I did my mail (offline) with ED, and every
- now and again, I had to edit a previous line, which made the line length >78
- characters (which made it look crap). It was fixed with a ARexx script which
- formats whole paragraphs (from cursor location to the end of the paragraph,
- which is defined as a blank line or a white space character in the first
- column).
-
- nick
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