... Good interview and interesting. I remember the DOS and OS/2 days like yesterday - it really helped having Boxer as a companion. Thanks for sticking with it...
... I miss OS/2. It was a nice environment. IBM's documentation was superb. If it wasn't for IBM's decision to continue supporting the brain-dead 286 and move...
... The english one yes - the german translation you needed to retranslate back to english to understand the documentation. :-) Stephan...
Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Jun 4, 2007 7:57 am
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Hi, I miss a keyboard shortcut for selecting a line (Shift+Down works only if cursor is on Column 1) and would like to write a macro for this. If isued several...
Hi Christian, Thanks for your note... christianeibler> I miss a keyboard shortcut for selecting a line (Shift+Down christianeibler> works only if cursor is on...
Hi David, great! Thanks. Best Editor + best support! Could you help me also with this: - a Macro, which prefixes a selected block of text (like quoting) - and...
Hi Christian, christianeibler> great! Thanks. Best Editor + best support! christianeibler> Could you help me also with this: christianeibler> - a Macro, which...
David, I know this feature. But I think a macro would be faster than that. And I would like to see, how to do this with a macro. It's not so important - if...
Christian - Here's a macro I wrote to prepend a range of lines. It prompts for the prepend text, start line, and end line. It doesn't select the lines it ...
Carl Talley
ctalley@...
Jun 13, 2007 5:21 pm
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A Boxer user just sent this tip in private email: I wanted to let you know about a lovely little Firefox add-on that I just found today. It's called "It's...
Hey that's a pretty cool addin. Thanks for posting it. Firefox has some neat capability - Addins is one of them. Lloyd ... Hey that's a pretty cool addin. ...
Hi, It's All Text is great, I use it all the time for Webmail. A similar extensions for Thunderbird: External Editor http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 ...
I am attempting to make a macro that will copy the current document, but display only lines that do not match a search query. Since there's a good chance most...
Hi Allen, Al> The 'LineContainsRE' command on line 19 was supplied with a regular Al> expression that caused an error when executed: -3. I can't figure Al>...
Sorry about the back to back posting, here... ... document, ... I mean display only lines that DO match a query. ... Turns out it works just fine with...
Ok, I found the ViewTextHighlighting(); option, turns out there's no highlighting for regex junkies. Feature request? :) So that just leaves me with the...
Hi Allen, Al> Ok, I found the ViewTextHighlighting(); option, turns out there's no Al> highlighting for regex junkies. Feature request? :) Are you asking...
Al> Turns out it works just fine with LineContainsRE -- perhaps a bug with Al> LineContainsREi? Though I'm using REi, the error message says RE. I use Al>...
Al> but I couldn't figure out how to copy the current documents contents Al> over into a non-saved/named file. My present solution is to create a Al> temporary...
... or ... example of ... Thanks for the SelectAllText()... solution. I figured that should be doable, just wasn't sure what the functions were just yet....
I am trying to wrap my head around the "skip" command but to no avail. I'm either very confused, or it's quite broken. First, my understanding of it-- ...
I'm hunting around to find a good editor under Windows, having previously done almost all my editing on IBM mainframes (XEDIT, ISPF edit - both highly ...
... Of that long list, what's most important to you? It would seem kind of cruel for someone to give a detailed reply, only to find out that their answer to...
Jeremy, I'm an ex-mainframer (used ISPF edit a lot and XEDIT a little) and long time user of Boxer. I found it when looking for a text editor for use under ...
Raymond H. Earle
REARLE@...
Jul 2, 2007 2:45 am
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... A lot of the questions are asking aspects of the same thing, that is, how does one tailor the options for a specific file being edited, rather than have a...
I see arrays in macros are not really possible, but it occurs to me that one could perhaps use WriteValue() to store lots of values in consecutively numbered...
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy> I see arrays in macros are not really possible, but it occurs to me that one Jeremy> could perhaps use WriteValue() to store lots of values...
Hi Allen, Al> I cycle to window two, hit ctrl+k which I've mapped to skip -- Al> presumably it's now skipped. I cycle through the windows via ctrl+` Al> which...
