HI Mike!

16 Mar 97 11:38, Mike Christian wrote to Sean Sixsmith:

 SS>> I seem to remember that around the 3.20 version of MsgEd someone 
 SS>> had added a switch to MsgEd so that whenever you wrote a message 
 SS>> in an echo and then exited the echo to the area list the 
 SS>> echotoss.log would be written.  Was that option ever added to 
 SS>> MsgEd?  If it was is it still in the latest version of MsgEd 
 SS>> (4.10).

 MC> If I understand you correctly Sean, I think that feature has 
 MC> been in MsgEd for years, with no need for a switch. Maybe I have 
 MC> been just lucky, but that's the way Msged works here now - it 
 MC> genereates a tosslog entry for each area that I write a message 
 MC> in, although I don't think it actually does so until I exit 
 MC> Msged.

Well, that's what I was talking about.  I don't want MsgEd to write an
echotoss.log only when I exit.  I would like (and thought that there was a
version 3.20 or 3.40, and thus by extension 4.10) that could be configured
via a switch so that it wrote an echotoss.log when I had written a message
and had exited an area (but not exited MsgEd).  I use OS/2 and it kind of
gets a p.i.a. to have to exit every time I want the messages that I have
written with MsgEd to be scanned and sent out.  If I was using Dos I could
understand that I would have to exit MsgEd to be able to run my mail
processor but I'm not.

 SS>> Also, is there any way to change the shape of the cursor.  What 
 SS>> I would like to see is instead of a hard to see underscore, a 
 SS>> big flashing block, or maybe the underscore cursor in a 
 SS>> different colour.

 MC> The latest release offers limited cursor control, you can 
 MC> control the start and stop scan lines. In Msged.cfg:

 MC> Curstart 0
 MC> Curend 14

What exactly are these supposed to do???  I tried them (and other
values/numbers) and I didn't see anything different at all with the cursor.


 SS>> Any chance of being able to add a spell checking option to the 
 SS>> internal editor at all (if it doesn't already exist that is)?

 MC> That is on the top of my wishlist too! Years ago, someone in 
 MC> this echo posted a macro to use a spell checker with Msged, but 
 MC> it was klunky, and I gave up on it. This would be a cool 
 MC> addition.

Agreed! :-)

Now, if someone could fix this Alt+Z bug (unless there's a switch that I
don't know about that activates that key combo?), Alt+Z being the ability
to delete all quoted text to the end of the message, that would be great!
:-)

Thanks for your reply Mike!!  Much appreciated!

Talk to you later

Sean
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