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Hello August!

*** Tuesday 18.01.22 at 07:29, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> I'm still trying to wrap my head over the adhoc Origin line
 AA>>> feature in OXP.  Dunno what to do with it...

 MF>> Hmmmmm, I find it quite useful and it's quick and easy to
 MF>> use.

 AA> I haven't seen you use it very much.   :/

I haven't used it much, I only use it when the need arises :)

 AA>>> And.. the adhoc one is replaced one with the static one
 AA>>> if there is a need to re-edit the message body before
 AA>>> sending it.

 MF>> Yes, that's correct.

 AA> That is a bit annoying especially if one has spent time to
 AA> craft something witty and profound but a simple re-edit would
 AA> undo it.

I find it *very* annoying actually.

 AA>>> What is the designer's/programmer's idea behind the function?

 MF>> A basic simple way of changing the pre-defined origin for
 MF>> the current message. However, there's plenty of scope for
 MF>> improvement in future releases.

 AA> But then why not build it so that it extracts predefined text
 AA> (that is known to fit) in that space?

Yes, why not?
Perhaps you could ask the developer about that.

 AA> I am just having trouble understanding what exactly the
 AA> designer had in mind to put in there each and every time.

See [1] below .....

 AA>>> How is anyone else using it?

 MF>> Ummmmmmmm :)

 MF>> -+- OpenXP 5.0.51
 MF>>  + Origin: OpenXP-Team (2:310/31.3)

 AA> OK, sure..  nice, short and simple. But wouldn't it make better
 AA> sense to craft different versions of it so that you can pick
 AA> them from a drop-down or something?

A better solution would have been to implement something along the lines  
of the Glossary feature, whereby all the user needs to do is to press  
 from within the editor and then select an item from the pre- 
defined list that pops up. In this case, it would be a list of origin  
lines pre-defined by the user in an ascii text file, e.g. "origins.txt"  
and the key-press could be .

[snip]
 AA> The designer had *something* in mind for its REGULAR use so
 AA> that there were no incidents like re-entering that text.

[1] Seeing as origin lines could be defined on a global, group and area  
level, somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also be defined  
at the single message level and I duly put in a feature request for a  
*simple*, *basic* means of doing so. He duly obliged by implementing  
exactly what I'd asked for, no more, no less.

Regards,
Martin
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