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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:34:18 GMT
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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: Text-Blocks:Boilerplate
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- In-Reply-To: <28665.9212180406@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "Kenneth Salzberg" at Dec
- 17,92 10:04 pm
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- Kenneth Salzberg wrote........
- >
- >
- > Now that understand what Mervyn was talking about (One needs a _file_
- > up to get the F1-l-s-t sequence to work - Even NB3 had context sensitive
- > help.), I think that 4.0 has changed the procedure into boilerplate.
- > Now, if you have a file, of, for instance, an address, with the name
- > Salzberg.bpl in the directory c:\nb4\boiler , then when you get to the
- > place in your file where you wish to insert that address, you type
- > F1-[alt]l-s-b and a list of your boilerplate files comes up, including
- > Salzberg.bpl. Hightlight it, press F10, and voila!, the address is
- > inserted in the file.
- > Is this what you wanted, Mervyn?
- > --Ken Salzberg
- > ksalzber@hamline.edu
- >
-
- Ken, forgive me if I yell.....
-
- YES - THAT'S WHAT I WANT - AND IF IT WORKS HOOROO HOORAY AND
- HULLABALARRITY!
-
- What put me on the downside of delight was the comment by NB UK's
- helpline that they thought that the facility had gone, and this
- surprised me. They said they'd experiment and ring me back when they'd
- worked out an answer, and silence has followed. Clearly, this is a
- consequence of transient unmanualarity, and shows that ostensible
- deprovements must be considered in that context.
-
- But two questions occur to me:
-
- 1. There may be a lesson in how you learned about the .bpl extension.
-
- 2. Is it possible to distinguish between different sets of
- boilerplate files? Everything presumably goes into \boiler, in the
- same way that user dictionaries go into \spell. In v. 3, one used
- different directories for boilerplate files. I would not like to find,
- for example, that addresses in two very different lists which once
- were kept separately now go into the same scouse.... I hope "boiler"
- means less than it might do!
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
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