Paul, at 11:22 on Aug 20 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Assuming that the area into which you want to copy the message is called 
BG> LOCAL_INTEREST, and bearing in mind that the Msgedsq area-list displays the 
BG> echos in the same order as you have them in squish.cfg, you must edit your 
BG> squish.cfg so that this is the first echo listed which begins with the 
BG> letter "L", as the macro will still copy the message into
the first echo in 
BG> your Msgedsq area-list which begins with "L", even if it's
the wrong one.

PE> I suppose I should have mentioned this, but this behaviour changed
PE> with 3.20.  If you go to the area list and type "loc" instead of
PE> jumping from the first "l" to the first "o" to
the first "c", it
PE> instead looks for the first "lo" then the first "loc". 

Yep, it appears that 3.20 certainly does that now, which will make such
macros a lot easier to create.  And yes, you definitely should have
mentioned it.  Are there any other nasty little surprises lurking under the
bonnet?

Regards, Bill
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