06 Dec 97 20:40, Stewart Honsberger (1:229/600.1) wrote to andrew clarke:

 > {New release! New release!} (I'm working on subliminal messages, how'd
 > I do? :> )

Not bad.  ;-)

 > Also, the documentation hasn't been updated for god-knows-how-long,
 > so some new DOC's would be nice.. :> As well as a WHATSNEW.??? file or
 > something of that nature, just for sheer curiosity.. :>

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 code
than anything else, but that will change soon.  Some of the bugs I've come
across must've been around for years now - the usual stuff like trying to
deallocate non-allocated blocks of memory, or not freeing memory after it's
finished with it.  I believe the gold release of Msged 4.20 will be very
stable when it's finally released.  But I don't intend to release it
without adequate documentation.  If that means delaying the release by a
month, then I think it's worth it.

 > Also, I've got somewhat of a bug (or an annoyance if you will) to
 > report.. When you quote/reply to a message, it will only add #13's to
 > lines in certain situations, for one, when you 'C'hange a message, it
 > doesn't add them, leaving you with one long line of text.

I think I follow.  You're using an external editor, yeah?  You could try
enabling word-wrap in your editor, or otherwise add

Switch ExtFormat Off

in your MSGED.CFG.  This disables reformatting of messages edited with an
external editor, and (by the sounds of it) should stop PGP complaining too.

 > Also, somewhat related to the above problem, when I import a file
 > to a message (for instance, I program so I occasionally import a
 > segment of code for one reason or another) MsgEd will re-format it,
 > making it A) Unreadable, or B) causing the reciever to spend lots of
 > time manually re-formatting.

See above.  The problem with disabling ExtFormat is that when it comes down
to somebody else quoting your message, it may not quote very well since
each line has a carriage-return after it (rather than each paragraph).

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.

  This paragraph shall be reformatted.
  <<
  #include 

  int main(void)
  {
      printf("But this text will remain preformatted.\n");
      return 0;
  }
  <<
  And this paragraph shall be reformatted.

This basically means you can do selected preformatting of message text,
including source code and the like.  This is a simplistic explanation, but
you probably get the idea.  It works much the same way as the GoldED's
"hardline" feature, from memory.

 > Well, you got my input.. :> I hope you keep cranking out new versions..
 > And I just wanted to let you know, your work is appreciated..

Thanks.  :-)

-- randy{at}zws.com

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