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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 12:46:55 EST
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- From: Rip Lhamon <wlhamon@GARNET.ACNS.FSU.EDU>
- Subject: input window save
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- I am annoyed, perhaps neurotically, by the beep that inevitably occurs when
- I am composing in a footnote or label input window. This occurs when the
- automatic save setting tries to save the file when the input window is open.
- I know that I'm not alone in this annoyance.
-
- I have tried to create a program, that I could assign to a key, that would
- close the input window, save the file, reopen the input window, and return
- me to the spot where I was composing. My clumsy attempts to create such a
- program founder over the problem of finding where the cursor was before
- closing the window, and the problem of wanting the program to run in all
- input window instances equally--i.e., I don't want one key to push when in
- a footnote, and another in a label.
-
- Even better would be a program that would make NB4 automatically save the
- beeping file anyway, despite one's being in the input window--that is, save
- without beeping.
-
- Has any of you already produced such a fix? If so, I hope you'll share
- it. I have spent several hours trying to figure out how to save the cursor
- position and return to it. I am deficient when it comes to xpl programs.
- Even worse, I keep trying to write them, which makes my above mentioned
- neurosis turn into psychosis. The only cures I have found so far are deep
- hot baths, digging in the earth, drinking single malts until I hear that
- click Paul Newman used to tell Elizabeth Taylor about, or running inordinate
- distances. None of these is kicking my manuscript along very far.
- Rip Lhamon
- wlhamon@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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