XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:48:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
      
      
   >> # 1. Set your preferred text or HTML editor   
   >> editor="vi"  # Replace with your preferred editor (e.g., nano, vim)   
   >   
   > Why not use the standard EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables? That¢s   
   > what they¢re for.   
      
   Good idea! Thanks for the improvement! Much appreciated. Will do!   
      
   I'm currently busy writing a more complicated version of the bookmarks   
   batch file that creates the Vine & Amazon links, which is far more   
   difficult because I have to convert the spaces in Windows to plus signs (+)   
   for Amazon search links, and to %20 characters for Vine search links.   
      
   [amazon] gas camp stove
   
   [vine]   
   gas camp stove
   
      
   Here's a snippet of how difficult it was to do in Windows, where we'd just   
   use sed/awk/grep on Linux to convert the spaces to those characters.   
      
      :input_item   
      echo.Enter search item: ; for example, gas camp stove   
      set /p "item="   
      
      :replace_spaces_with_+   
      set "amazon_item=%item: =+%"   
      
      :replace_spaces_with_%20   
      set "vine_item="   
      for %%a in (%item%) do (   
        if "%%a"=="" (   
          set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%20"   
        ) else (   
          if defined vine_item (   
            set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%20"   
          )   
          set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%a"   
        )   
      )   
      
      echo Original item: %item%   
      echo    Amazon item: %amazon_item%   
      set vine_item=!vine_item!   
      echo    Vine item: %vine_item%   
      echo.Adding... "%amazon_item%" and "!vine_item!" to %vinefile   
      
   It's not lost on me (nor on you, I'm sure) how miserable this task is on   
   Windows.   
      
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