[pmmail-list] Substitute Text Editor

[Kenn Yuill]

  OK, this is fine, but in a Message Window, the 3rd Icon, "Edit the
body of this message externally", doesn't work as I would expect.  If
it is inactive, why does it appear in a normal Message Window?

  A "New Message" or a reply window is another matter..  I can delete
the "the" in a reply without invoking an external editor.  I'm not sure
of your point here.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:47:11 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:

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!
#

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    Kenn Yuill    Warp 4.0/FP10    Java 1.18
        PMMail/2 2.1 Demo.  Opera 3.6 (Win-OS/2)
            The Beautiful Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada 
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