[pmmail-list] Substitute Text Editor

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:47:11 -0400 (EDT)

OK...
Here's what I just did:
While reading your message in the PMMail/2 window, I. . .

1) Hit REPLY with your entire message highlighted so it would be
included as quoted text in this reply.
2) Added these lines which you see here.
3) I am now going to use the third icon on this 'New Message' window to
invoke the EPM Editor...  After which I will:
	a) Delete the 'the' that you wanted out.
	b) Remove all the '>' characters that are used to
	mark the quoted text and replace them with '#' 
	characters.
	c) Save the file [icon in EPM]
	d) When it returns to this 'New Message' window
	I will send the resulting message as it is.
	[Note:  I also have an EXT6.BOD already in the
	PMMAIL/TEMP directory.  But, I also have a file,
	EXT7.BOD from another currently open "New Message"
	reply to another message that I have not completed
	yet.
You will receive the resulting message, whatever it looks like.

Carl

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:19:40 -0400 (EDT), Kenn Yuill wrote:

#Carl,
#
#I opened your message to remove the redundancy in my response, which
#was the "the" in "its the \PMMAIL\TEMP directory".  As you can see
#below, there was no change, using the FlexEdit editor from FileStar/2.

#Outside of PMMail/2, this editor works very well.  I should mention
#that this editor is set in PMMail/2 to read text/plain files with the
#working directory as \PMMAIL\TEMP, if this makes any difference, which
#it shouldn't, IMHO.  At the moment, there are 2 files in \PMMAIL\TEMP,
#namely, EXT6.BOD at 0 bytes, created by PMMail for this message and
#TEMP.bak from FlexEdit, created after my previous attempt to edit your
#message.
#
#I'm at FP 10 and there are no attributes connected to this TEMP
#directory, which was a problem with one of the Fixpaks in disallowing
#the system to write to a directory, IIRC.  FlexEdit has no problems
#writing to any directory, with TEMP.bak being proof of this fact.
#
#I'm at a loss.  If I shut down PMMail/2 and restart it, after running
#another program, I can edit only one message.  Weird!
#
#On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 02:27:38 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
#
#Kenn,
#
#Try this:
#	* Open the message window with the text you
#	  want to change.
#	* Switch to the Text Editor.
#	* Make all the changes you want.
#	* SAVE the file.
#	* Exit the Editor.
#You will then return to the PMMail editor with the changed text
#replacing the text that was there when you switched to the Text
#Editor.
#
#This is the process I use on a regular basis with EPM as the external
#editor.
#
#Good luck.
#
#Carl
#
#On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:11:40 -0400 (EDT), Kenn Yuill wrote:
#
##  I'm trying out the 2380 demo. and any editor that I have tried
#(Kon,
##EPM or FlexEdit) to edit a message externally works without incident
##but changes to the message are not saved after the first successful
##edition.  I'll have to try deleting any previous files, TEMP.BOD &
##TEMP.HDR in the TEMP folder, before trying to edit a second time
#during
##one session of PMM.
##If this behaviour is a limitation of the demo. version, I missed any
##reference to it.
##
##  The only possible contributing factor is that the system is set to
##use Z:\TEMP, a RAM Disk, as a temporary directory, whereas PMMail
#uses
##its \PMMAIL\TEMP directory.
##
##Any help is appreciated.
#
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