Hmm.. W at the Folder level creates a fresh new message. It would
make more sense to me if W could be invoked while viewing the Message list.
Hmm.. W at the Folder level creates a fresh new message. It would
make more sense to me if W could be invoked while viewing the Message
list.
i've never seen one that does that...
FWIW: the INSert key may also start a new message... that's a traditional
key mapping in all of the sysop-side editors i've ever used...
Hmm.. W at the Folder level creates a fresh new message. It would
make more sense to me if W could be invoked while viewing the Message
list.
i've never seen one that does that...
FWIW: the INSert key may also start a new message... that's a
traditional key mapping in all of the sysop-side editors i've ever
used...
You can bet that I've also never seen so many non-standard editing key sequences. LOL
Even Wordperfect and Wordstar managed to share the same key-combos.
BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features. For a program that was initially released in early 1992, and also being a full-fledged mail and
newsreader for the Internet - supporting external clients sharing
messages using POP3 / SMTP (mail) and NNTP (news) protocols.. it's impressive.
If it was as "complete" and apparently bugfree as it appears now, it
could have been my "user" editor of choice. But, back then we had
other fine emerging offline readers/editors to work with too.
INSert key has a special function in oxp. (I don't know how to pop
out of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet,
otherwise I would tell you exactly what INS does.)
Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp. I would refer
to it more often if it had all the menus and submenus. The menu
structure is phenominal - that is, so many levels and features. Most
it, once configured, probably never needs to be reviewed again.
From the guide:
Ctl-KC - copy block to cursor position
Ctl-KV - move block to cursor position
Ctl-KY - delete block
Ctl-KW - write block to file
Ctl-KO - ROT13 encrypt block
Ctl-QB - move cursor to beginning of block
Ctl-QK - move cursor to end of block
I like to work with blocks, inserting text, moving paragraphs around,
etc. I don't think I will ever remember the above. But the context sensitive help invoked with F1 is pretty good.
Even Wordperfect and Wordstar managed to share the same key-combos.
not in my experience... i detested WP because it didn't use the standard touch-typist keys that i learned from my programming editors...
eg: these wordstar touch-typist keystrokes
^KB block begin
^KK block end
^KC block copy
^KV block move
^KW block write
^KY block delete
BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features. For a program that was initially released in early 1992, .. it's impressive.
there's a lot of FTN tools like that... GoldEd is one that also has a
lot of those capabilities... i only use the standard FTN stuff with
it, though...
INSert key has a special function in oxp. (I don't know how to pop
out of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet, otherwise I would tell you exactly what INS does.)
can't open another window and look at the help? i have no less than a dozen windows open over here... some running specific monitoring tasks and others waiting on input or something to do ;)
INSert key has a special function in oxp. (I don't know how to pop out
of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet, otherwise I would tell you exactly what INS does.)
Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp. I would refer to it more often if it had all the menus and submenus. The menu structure
is phenominal - that is, so many levels and features. Most it, once configured, probably never needs to be reviewed again.
can't open another window and look at the help? i have no less than a
dozen windows open over here... some running specific monitoring
tasks and others waiting on input or something to do ;)
Nope. There is no known way to have multiple windows in oxp.
Nope. There is no known way to have multiple windows in oxp.
i wasn't speaking of another window in oxp... i was speaking of like another terminal window where you could run list.com or maybe midnight commander and go look at the help file in the raw outside of oxp ;)
- Save the message
- Figure out what the <Insert> key does :)
- Message/Unsent/Show
- Message/Unsent/Edit
- Continue composing the message
Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp. I would refer to AA>> it more often if it had all the menus and submenus..
When all said and done, it's a Basic Installation Guide which was
originally intended to get the user as far as making their first poll.
The rest of it was added later but it's a case of where to stop ;-)
Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp. I would refer
to it more often if it had all the menus and submenus..
When all said and done, it's a Basic Installation Guide which was
originally intended to get the user as far as making their first poll.
Noted. And a fine offering on your part!
The rest of it was added later but it's a case of where to stop ;-)
I wonder if an online guide might be a good solution. That way,
if a change is needed, update a section on the website, and you
don't need to re-distribute a new document (and older copies out
there), just refer people to a website.
I wonder if an online guide might be a good solution. That way,
if a change is needed, update a section on the website, and you
don't need to re-distribute a new document (and older copies out
there), just refer people to a website.
In a way, that's what I'm doing because if a visitor clicks on the
document link on my website, the document is loaded into their default
PDF viewer. If they right-click on the link, the document can be downloaded. However, I *do* see where you're coming from :-)
I wonder if an online guide might be a good solution. That way,
if a change is needed, update a section on the website, and you
don't need to re-distribute a new document (and older copies out
there), just refer people to a website.
In a way, that's what I'm doing because if a visitor clicks on the
document link on my website, the document is loaded into their default
PDF viewer. If they right-click on the link, the document can be
downloaded. However, I *do* see where you're coming from :-)
The site could pratically emulate the dropdowns, but at each step it
would display the help for each choice.
I have found it tricky to undersand some of the terse built-in helps with just F1. But with your added text, or examples, someone could use it alongside an actual set up.
The site could pratically emulate the dropdowns, but at each step it
would display the help for each choice.
Yeah but I have more than enough on my plate as it is.
I have found it tricky to undersand some of the terse built-in helps with AA>> just F1. But with your added text, or examples, someone could use it
alongside an actual set up.
They could also print out the guide and have it by their side :-)
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