16 Dec 97 03:11, Stewart Honsberger (1:229/600.1) wrote to andrew clarke:

 >> Yep.  I've been promising new docs for a while now, but haven't had the
 >> time to write much.  Currently I'm more interested in fixing broken

 > I sympathize.. Writing the program itself, no problem, but as soon as
 > you get to the documentation.. "Uhm.. Did I add that feature yet?...
 > did I..." :>Did I fix that? Or

Now try documenting 10-year-old code you never wrote and you don't
understand fully.  =)

 > Aye.. I do agree that I'd rather have a working program than a DOC that
 > tells me it doesn't work :>

=)

 >> The way I use the external editor is to enable ExtFormat, and whenever
 >> I have a particular part of the text that I think needs to remain
 >> preformatted, I'll put a "<<" (sans quotes) in
the first column of a
 >> new paragraph before and after it, eg.

 > And the "<<"'s will be stripped when the messages is saved?

Each << is replaced by a blank paragraph.

-- randy{at}zws.com

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