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  Re: How do you edit msg files
  By: Digital Man to Mindsurfer on Wed Oct 22 2025 12:35:44

 DM> Unfortunately, the ANSI cursor positioning trick isn't really going to
 DM> work for non-ANSI terminals, so I wouldn't encourage it. --

Good to know! So for compatibility reasons it would be better to just "print"
the @codes into the line itself and avoid the positioning via esc sequences at
the end of the file.

But.. I have found an editor that does exactly what i need.
With icy_Draw i can define "Tags" that consist of the preview in the editor
layout, the @code, length, alignment, method (inLine or GotoXY) etc.
So using the icy_Draw Tag Tool, it will look exactly as it will look in the
BBS later within the editor. wysiwyg so to say :)

Icy_Draw still needed a little fix within the export to msg function, wich
Mike was so kind to do this evening. So with the freshly build AppImage,
Icy_Draw now does exactly what I originally envisioned when I began exploring
the possible options for this task. =)

Thanks for all explaining and helping out!

Mindsurfer

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