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Tagline Manager
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To select a tagline for inclusion in a message, highlight
the required tagline using the cursor and paging keys plus
Home or End and then press Enter or F10.
The selected line will be appended to your reply before it is
sent.
Press Esc to send the current message without a tagline.
You may also edit your taglines whilst at this screen using the
following keys:
E - Edit the highlighted tagline.
Whilst editing a tagline, you may use any of the standard
Power-QWK editing keys - Home, End, Ins, Del, Backspace,
Cursor Left, Cursor Right, Ctrl/End.
F - Change to a new default tagline file. The Tagline Manager's
display changes to show all files with extension .TAG which
exist in the main Power-QWK directory.
You may select one of the names by highlighting it and then
pressing Enter or F10 or, to continue using the current file,
press Esc.
When you first enter Power-QWK, the file POWERQWK.TAG
becomes the current default tagline file.
When you first enter a message base, either from Main Menu
or, if you have more than one message base, from the
Message Base Selection screen, Power-QWK checks for the
existence of a file named message_base_name.TAG. If such a
file exists then it becomes the new default tagline file.
All tagline files must have an extension of .TAG and must
reside in the main Power-QWK directory.
Once a default tagline file has been selected, it remains
current until either it is specifically changed again
within Tagline Manager or entry is made to a message base
which has its own default tagline file.
M - Match. Power-QWK will prompt for a Wildcard Pattern and
then, starting at the beginning of the current tagline
file, search for the first tagline which matches the
supplied pattern. Thereafter, repeatedly pressing N will
cause Power-QWK to scan from current position, looking for
the Next tagline which matches the current Wildcard
Pattern.
Power-QWK Wildcard Patterns, as used for Wildcard Searching
of message Subject fields at the message screen, may contain
ANY NUMBER of wildcard (* and ?) characters.
* matches ANY sequence of zero or more characters.
? matches any single character (but not zero characters).
The matching is case insensitive. i.e., ABC will match ABC,
ABc, abC, AbC or any other sequence of the characters abc,
irrespective of whether they may be of upper or lower case.
The matching process ignores trailing space characters in
taglines.
Some examples:
dog* will match all taglines which begin with 'dog'.
*carry. will match all taglines which end with 'carry.'.
*qual* will match all taglines which contain 'qual'.
*cot*cot* will match all taglines which contain either the
sequence 'cotcot' or two occurrences of the sequence 'cot'.
?a* will match all taglines which have 'a' as their second
letter.
and so on.
N - Next match - see 'M' above.
S - Sort all taglines into ascending alphanumeric sequence.
Remember that Power-QWK tagline files may not exceed 64Kb in
size.
Del - Delete the highlighted tagline.
Ins - Insert a new tagline 'just before' the highlighted tagline.
If you make any changes then, when you press Enter, F10 or Esc,
as well as taking the chosen tagline action, Power-QWK will ask
whether you wish to retain the changes you have made. Unless
and until you confirm the changes, no alteration will have been
made to your taglines file.
Note that, if you enter the Tagline Manager by pressing T at the
Conference Menu, rather than entering automatically because you
have finished writing a message, then the keys Esc, Enter and
F10 reduce in meaning to simply 'exit'.
Whilst the Tagline Manager window is on display, you may also
change its colours. The chosen colours are also used by (and may
also be changed within) Hot Key Manager and the Conference and
Addressee Pick Lists.
F5 - highlight bar background
F6 - highlight bar foreground
F7 - text background
F8 - text foreground