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system: You are Sammy Mitchell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: what is this echo about??".

They wrote:
> I got the demo, haven't tried it yet. Don't know if I will.
>=20
> It's a little expensive for my setup.
>=20
> Thanks anyway,
> ---
> | Fidonet:  Wayne Delisle Sr. 1:379/33
> | Internet: 1-379-33-0!=09
>=20

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assistant: From: Sammy Mitchell <sammy.mitchell@semware.com>
Wayne Delisle =
Sr.[SMTP:1-379-33-0!Wayne.Delisle.Sr.@sawasdi.apana.org.au] wrote:
Keep in mind, that if you are a licensed user of a previous version of =
one of our products, there is a *BIG* discount on getting any other =
product.  It is on the order of %50 or so.
--=20
Sammy Mitchell,  SemWare Corp.,  www.semware.com
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system: You are David Marcus, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Doing Stuff and then starting spellchk i05:19:0611/05/97".

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assistant: From: DavidMarcus@MindSpring.com (David Marcus)
hi,
Is there a way to record a keyboard macro and have recording stop after you
start a process such as spell checking?
For instance, i want to record a macro that closes my current file, does a
search and replace on the next file, and starts spell checking it.  Is there
any way to do this?
tks
system: You are Hs, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "advice TSE 2.5 or 2.8?".

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assistant: From: HS <hans_p_schaffner@compuserve.com>
A few weeks ago I had to start using windows (win95). Yet I run my TSE 2.=
5
in a DOS box (after just start an audio CD in Windows :-( ) succsessful. =
I
am not sure if I should order the 2.8 windows version of tse or just the
2.5 maintenance release. Wich advantages would it have to install 2.8 and=
run it in Windows instead of running 2.5 in a DOS box?
As I run my system with a braille display and speech it is not an easy
decision for me. I noticed for example that everything seems to be slower=
on a braille display in Windows than in DOS. While reading a text with th=
e
standard Win editor or with Win Word it takes noticeable more time to
update the display. So I wonder if this would happen also in TSE for
Windows. - Is the working environment about the same as in DOS TSE 2.5?
TIA
Regards
Hanspeter Schaffner
system: You are "Kieninger,Karl  @Silverplume", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "pausing a macro".

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assistant: From: "Kieninger,Karl    @Silverplume" <kieninka@silverplume.iix.com>
I would like to be able to pause an error checking macro, allow the user to
correct an error, and then restart the macro from that point.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Karl Kieninger
system: You are Richard Blackburn, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: pausing a macro".

They wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to pause an error checking macro, allow the user to
> correct an error, and then restart the macro from that point.
>
> Any ideas?

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assistant: From: Richard Blackburn <rblackburn@mindspring.com>
Kieninger,Karl @Silverplume wrote:
Yes, you need to use the Process() command:
Process
Invokes another editor process.
Syntax:     INTEGER Process()
Returns:    The result of the EndProcess() that terminated the call to
            Process().  If EndProcess() is not passed a parameter, the
result
            is 0.
Notes:      This command invokes the editor recursively.  Control is not
            returned to the macro that originally invoked Process()
until the
            EndProcess() command is executed.
Examples:
            /********************************************************
              A simple browse only mode macro.
              In this example, the editor is re-entered at the call to
              Process(), and control is not returned to the Browse()
              macro until EndProcess() is called - in this particular
              case, by pressing <Escape>
             ********************************************************/
            keydef BrowseKeys()
              <CursorUp>      Up()
              <CursorDown>    Down()
              <Escape>        EndProcess()
            end
            proc Browse()
              if Enable(BrowseKeys, _EXCLUSIVE_)
                  Message("Press <Escape> to exit browse mode")
                  Process()
                  Disable(BrowseKeys)
              endif
            end
See Also:   EndProcess(), Enable(), Disable()
--
Richard Blackburn | 6040 Sand Wedge Circle    | (w) 770-434-8492
NSS  22940RL      | Kennesaw, GA 30144-2076   | (h) 770-427-1890
SCCI 38           | rblackburn@mindspring.com | (f) 770-434-8714
system: You are Eric Stork, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Help on a Puzzler, Please".

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assistant: From: Eric Stork <estork@erols.com>
I use TSE2.5e & WIN3.11.  On the whole, TSE2.5e runs fine under WIN3.11.
I've assigned WrapPara() to <ALT Grey *>.  That works in DOS.  But when
running TSE2.5 from WIN3.11, typing <ALT Grey *> does NOT wrap the
paragraph -- instead, the screen flashes briefly and nothing else happens.
Questions: Is <ALT Grey *> a "reserved key" in WIN 3.11?  I've looked for
but cannot find a list of "reserved keys" for WIN3.11--any pointers to such
a list? Is there any other reason that might explain this?
Ideas & advice will be most welcome.  I suggest you send them to me instead
of to the whole list, some of whom may not care to see responses.  I'll
summarize & post whatever I learn from the experts.
Eric
system: You are Jorj Strumolo, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: Help on a Puzzler, Please".

They wrote:
ES> Questions: Is <ALT Grey *> a "reserved key" in WIN 3.11?
<Alt>.  It's <Alt> that's a special key in Windows.  And it's
<Alt><Alt> InsertText("*")

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assistant: From: Jorj Strumolo <jorj@wsii.com>
    Eric Stork <estork@erols.com> writes:
 No, but it does get processed differently.  Run ShowKey().
 In DOS you get the first line, in Windows the next *three*.
  ASCII   Scan     Hex     Dec   Key
  Code    Code                   Name
     0      55    3700   14080   <Alt Grey*>
     0      56    3800   14336   <Alt>
     0      56    3800   14336   <Alt>
     0      56    3800   14336   <Alt>
 You get two from <Alt Grey*>, and another when you release
 *not* one of the Reserve Shortcut keys you can turn off in
 the Advanced section of a PIF.  I had thought of a possible way
 around that (since I, too, use <Alt Grey*>, as "*" for me), by
 including it as one of the things I do when I test for Windows
 at startup, as in this one at Main():
 if Length(GetEnvStr("windir")) LoadMacro('CUAmark') endif
 I never got it to work right, however.  This *half* works for me:
keydef WinAltKey                  // before Main()
end
if Length(GetEnvStr("windir")) Enable(WinAltKey) endif     // at Main()
 This correctly changes the first two <Alt>s into "*" for me, but
 when I release the <Alt>, I'm left with a two-key prompt of <Alt>
 waiting for completion, and a PushKey(<Escape>) didn't clear that.
 There's probably a way to do it somehow.
--
 Jorj.Strumolo@chowda.com * Fido 1:323/140 * jorj@wsii.com
system: You are Gdebruin@Concentric.Net, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: advice TSE 2.5 or 2.8?".

They wrote:
>tse or just the 2.5 maintenance release. Wich advantages would it have to
>install 2.8 and run it in Windows instead of running 2.5 in a DOS box?
>the standard Win editor or with Win Word it takes noticeable more time to
>update the display. So I wonder if this would happen also in TSE for
>Windows. - Is the working environment about the same as in DOS TSE 2.5?
>TIA
>Regards
>Hanspeter Schaffner

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assistant: From: gdebruin@concentric.net
In <199711070904_MC2-2729-74D2@compuserve.com>, on 11/07/97
   at 09:04 AM, HS <hans_p_schaffner@compuserve.com> said:
The biggest thing that you would probably notice right off is the ability
to handle long file names in the editor.  Instead of just having
letter.doc you could have something like Letter_to_Wife.doc  The second
biggest thing you'd probably notice is the additional space that you get
(something like a couple of gigs of space to work with).
If you do anything with the macro language, there are lots of new commands
and functions to play with.
A standard windows editor and Word are GUI applications.  TSE 2.8 is a
console application -- in other words, it still looks and acts like the
DOS version of TSE.  The display updating might be a bit slower, but on
the whole it will be _very_ close to the speed of the DOS version.
For you, I think the big decision really comes down to the increased file
size, long file names, and the real Win32 implementation.  There is one
other factor that I can think of: macro size.  Since we were able to
increase the macro size in TSE Pro 2.8, there are some macros coming out
with much greater capabilities than the 2.5 version -- just look at some
of the macros that Chris Antos is putting out now.
So, for the most part, I would say that the two are very close for your
major needs.  The extra bells and whistles are things that will depend on
your preferences.
I hope this helps.  Either way you chose, I think you will be quite
satisfied.
--
system: You are Gdebruin@Concentric.Net, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: TSE 2.5 under WIN3.11".

They wrote:
>But when I expand that icon to use and then close TSE, it does not
>restore the bottom-of-screen icon but is gone for good.

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assistant: From: gdebruin@concentric.net
In <3.0.2.16.19971109141025.3ad78dec@pop.erols.com>, on 11/09/97
   at 02:10 PM, Eric Stork <estork@erols.com> said:
The easiest thing you can do is to set the QuitToPrompt variable on.
Then, when you are done using the editor, exit the files, you will be
returned to the "Files to Edit" prompt.  Then minimize the window that the
editor is running it.  Next time you need it, you will be able to restore
the window, and load the files you need to edit.
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system: You are "Dave Guyer", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Subroutine length tool".

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assistant: From: "Dave Guyer" <dguyer@mail.cdsnet.net>
I have written a macro that does various tests of software
maintainablity.  One that I have not yet written is to determine the
length of procedures and triggers.  Several simple possibilities
exist:
procedure foo:
end.
   procedure foo2:
   end procedure.
on <some event> do:
end.
These are easily handled with:
   find ("{procedure}|{end procedure}|{on}|{^end}", "igwxv")
But how do I find the correct end in the following?
    procedure foo3:
    end.
   procedure foo4:
       on <event1> do:
       end.
       on <event2> do:
       end.
       on <event 3> do:
       end.
   end.
   on <event4> do:
   end.
Several  solutions would answer the problem.  (1) Modify
the function list macro to find the "end" of the function or trigger
and give me a line-count in the compressed view.  This sounds like
more work than I really want to do, but I am open to it because it
would be a cleaner user interface.
(2) Learn to use regular expressions so that when the procedure or on
keyword is found, the number of spaces after ^ is used to find the
corresponding end.  This would display the correct end immediately
after the line with the procedure or on keyword.
(3) Modify the function list macro to do #2 above.
I will be pleased to receive other possibilities or pointers on how
to best do any of the above.  Thanks in advance, and sorry about the
size of this message!
system: You are Fred Holmes, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Editing Ring".

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assistant: From: fred.holmes@mix.cpcug.org (FRED HOLMES)
 I need a couple of clues on how to run a process successively on
 all of the files in the editing ring.  If BufferId were a simple
 integer from 1 to n, I would write something like this.
 /* TSEFIND.S
    Clip the tse articles out of the MIX capture files
 */
      String S01[25]="tsepro"
      String Outfile[20]="TSEPRO.LOG"
      Integer n=0
      Integer i
 Proc Main()
      GoToBufferId(1)  // be sure you are at the beginning.
      PrevFile()   //  go to last file in ring
      n=GetBufferId()  // get the Buffer ID of the last file
      for i = 1 to n     // for each file in the ring
        GoToBufferId(n)  // perform successively on each file.
        Begfile()  // from here to endfor works just fine.
        Begline()
        if lFind(S01,"i") // Don't do anything if "tsepro" nf.
           Repeat
              lFind(S01,"i") //  Look for tsepro message indicator
              lFind("^Date:","xb")  // Look for beginning of message
              Markline()
              Down()
              lFind("{Date:}|{Scanning}|{(H)elp}","x") // end of msg
              Saveblock(Outfile, _append_)  // save message to Outfile
              UnMarkBlock()
                 Editfile(Outfile) // Put a separator in Outfile
                 EndFile()
                 BegLine()
                 AddLine()
                 InsertText("<<<>>>",_insert_)
                 SaveFile()
                 AbandonFile()
           Until Not lFind(S01,"i")
        else
        endif
      endfor
 end  // Proc Main()
 /*
 The process for clipping messages out of one file works just
 fine.  But I don't see any syntax for running the proc on a set
 of files in the ring.  Maybe there is an example I can follow
 somewhere in the macro libraries.  ???
 Yes, I do want all of the writes to the Outfile to be written to
 a single file for all of the input files.
 Thanks in advance for your help.
 Fred Holmes   fred.holmes@mix.cpcug.org
system: You are "Daniel H. Luecking", a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: Editing Ring".

They wrote:
>
> I need a couple of clues on how to run a process successively on
> all of the files in the editing ring.  If BufferId were a simple
> integer from 1 to n, I would write something like this.
>
> /* TSEFIND.S
>    Clip the tse articles out of the MIX capture files
> */
>      String S01[25]="tsepro"
>      String Outfile[20]="TSEPRO.LOG"
>      Integer n=0
>      Integer i
>
> Proc Main()
>      GoToBufferId(1)  // be sure you are at the beginning.
>      PrevFile()   //  go to last file in ring
>      n=GetBufferId()  // get the Buffer ID of the last file
>      for i = 1 to n     // for each file in the ring
>        GoToBufferId(n)  // perform successively on each file.
>        Begfile()  // from here to endfor works just fine.
>        Begline()
>        if lFind(S01,"i") // Don't do anything if "tsepro" nf.
>           Repeat
>              lFind(S01,"i") //  Look for tsepro message indicator
>              lFind("^Date:","xb")  // Look for beginning of message
>              Markline()
>              Down()
>              lFind("{Date:}|{Scanning}|{(H)elp}","x") // end of msg
>              Saveblock(Outfile, _append_)  // save message to Outfile
>              UnMarkBlock()
>                 Editfile(Outfile) // Put a separator in Outfile
>                 EndFile()
>                 BegLine()
>                 AddLine()
>                 InsertText("<<<>>>",_insert_)
>                 SaveFile()
>                 AbandonFile()
>           Until Not lFind(S01,"i")
>        else
>        endif
> end  // Proc Main()
>
> /*
>

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assistant: From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <luecking@comp.uark.edu>
At 03:20 PM 11/10/97 -0500, FRED HOLMES wrote:
You could use NumFiles() to find how many files are in the ring and then
simply go from one to the next with NextFile(). You could also record the
current buffer id:
   integer curr_id=GetBufferId()
and simply change files (with NextFile()),
   repeat
      // process current file
      NextFile()
   until GetBufferId()==curr_id
A buffer id is just guaranteed to be a unique integer. They do seem to be
allocated in increasing order. The first few are used internally by the
editor. Start-up macros could allocated several more. There may be no way
to tell for sure which is ``first'' in a ring (what's the first point on a
circle?), but if you really needed to know, you could traverse the ring
(with successive NextFile()'s) finding which had the lowest ID.
You probably meant GotoBufferID(i).
The following will traverse the ring, starting with the current file
and ending there:
proc Main()
    integer curr_id=GetBufferId()
    repeat
// and now continue with what works. But end with NextFile()
// I would use while lFind(S01,"i") ... endwhile
//You can put this text in AddLine("<<<>>>")
// an else may be omitted if nothing is to be done
         NextFile()
         until GetBufferId()==curr_id
--
Jan&Dan Luecking
luecking@comp.uark.edu
system: You are Frans Goddijn, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "CPU time of TSE ina  DOS box of WARP 4".

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assistant: From: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn)
Hi all,
when I am editing with TSE (2.0) in a DOS box of WARP 4, the CPU is 100%
busy, even if I'm not touching any key.
Is tehre any setting that I could do to prevent this? If I load TSE in a
DOS window I can see the CPU load ju,mp up to 00% when I click the TSE
window, and when I click outside of it, the CDP load drops back
immediately.
Met hartelijke groet!
 Frans Goddijn   | bbs: +31 (0)26 3217041
 Postbus 30196   | email: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl
 6803 AD Arnhem  | tel: +31 (0)26 3219342
 The Netherlands | http://www.pi.net/~fg
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You are what you is
system: You are Wayne Delisle Sr., a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Sammy Mitchell about "Beep(ing) in TSE Prof/32 v2.80".

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assistant: <**************************************************************************
NetMail
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11-09-97 08:04
Gateway Mail Daemon on (3:800/846.13)
wayne delisle sr on (1:379/33)
(Bounced) what is this echo about??
system: You are Sammy Mitchell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: Doing Stuff and then starting spellc02:43:0311/13/97".

They wrote:
> Is there a way to record a keyboard macro and have recording stop after you
> start a process such as spell checking?
>
> For instance, i want to record a macro that closes my current file, does a
> search and replace on the next file, and starts spell checking it.  Is
> any way to do this?

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assistant: From: Sammy Mitchell <sammy.mitchell@semware.com>
David Marcus[SMTP:DavidMarcus@MindSpring.com] wrote:
here
Try the following - it seems to work for me, your mileage may vary!
/**************************************************************************
  Turn off keyboard macro recording at any time.  Assumes that <Ctrl m> is
  your key to toggle recording.  If not, change the constant below.
 **************************************************************************/
constant TOGGLE_KEYMACRO_RECORDING = <Ctrl m>
/**************************************************************************
  Hooked routine that gets called just after every keypress, but before the
  key is given to the editor to process.
  If we are currently recording a keyboard macro, and the 'toggle macro
  recording' key is pressed, turn keyboard macro recording off.
  This allows us to turn off keyboard macro recording at *any* time the
  editor reads a key.
 **************************************************************************/
proc AfterGetKey()
    if Query(KbdMacroRecording) and Query(Key) == TOGGLE_KEYMACRO_RECORDING
        Set(KbdMacroRecording, off)
        Set(Key, -1)			// tell TSE to ignore the key
    endif
end
proc main()
    Hook(_AFTER_GETKEY_, AfterGetKey)
end
--
Sammy Mitchell,  SemWare Corp.
system: You are Stephane Gibier, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "CTags".

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assistant: From: sgibier@mail.dotcom.fr (Stephane Gibier)
Hello,
I would like to know if there is a macro which is able to manage tags
files from ctags (Exuberant ctags) generator. It will be great if this
macro could go to the definition, declaration from the cursor word.
Another great feature will be a class browser since classes are
identified in ctags files.
There is a pctags.s macro on the semware ftp site, but is it very lite
and specific to pc-tags generator.
A new challenge ?
I think that the excellent ctags from Darren Hiebert can be the
reference since it is very very powerful and available on DOS, Unix,
Win32, etc... It is used on many editors (Vim, Emacs, Zeus, NEdit,
=46TE, etc...). Why not on Tessie ?
CTags site :
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~darren/ctags/index.html
system: You are Pieter De Ruiter, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: CPU time of TSE ina  DOS box of WARP07:41:1811/14/97".

They wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>when I am editing with TSE (2.0) in a DOS box of WARP 4, the CPU is 100%
>busy, even if I'm not touching any key.
>
>Is tehre any setting that I could do to prevent this? If I load TSE in a
>DOS window I can see the CPU load ju,mp up to 00% when I click the TSE
>window, and when I click outside of it, the CDP load drops back
>immediately.
>
>Met hartelijke groet!
>
> Frans Goddijn   | bbs: +31 (0)26 3217041
> Postbus 30196   | email: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl
> 6803 AD Arnhem  | tel: +31 (0)26 3219342
> The Netherlands | http://www.pi.net/~fg
>--
>You are what you is

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assistant: From: Pieter de Ruiter <ruiter@xs4all.nl>
At 14:17 11-11-97 +0100, you wrote:
Don't think there's a setting in TSE. But WARP is a pre-emptive multitasking
system which means that the responsibility for managing tasks lies on the
operating system.
I think you have to look for a priority-like property in the Dosbox settings
of OS/2.
En de hartelijke groeten terug!
Zappa?
Groeten van Pieter de Ruiter,
Utrecht.