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Message   mark lewis    August Abolins   testing new message   April 3, 2019
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 On 2019 Apr 02 23:42:00, you wrote to me:

 AA>>> Hmm..  W at the Folder level creates a fresh new message.  It would
 AA>>> make more sense to me if W could be invoked while viewing the Message
 AA>>> list.

 ml>> i've never seen one that does that...

 ml>> FWIW: the INSert key may also start a new message... that's a
 ml>> traditional key mapping in all of the sysop-side editors i've ever
 ml>> used...

 AA> You can bet that I've also never seen so many non-standard editing key
 AA> sequences.  LOL

hehehe...

 AA> 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

i don't recall the ones for WP but they were mostly Fxx key combinations... the
 worst one was moving the Help from the F1 key... that really really stunk...

 AA> BUT, OXP has so m-a-n-y features.  For a program that  was initially
 AA> released in early 1992, and also being a full-fledged mail and
 AA> newsreader for the Internet - supporting external clients sharing
 AA> messages using POP3 / SMTP (mail) and NNTP (news) protocols.. it's
 AA> 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...

 AA> If it was as "complete" and apparently bugfree as it appears now, it
 AA> could have been my "user" editor of choice.  But, back then we had
 AA> other fine emerging offline readers/editors to work with too.

yup...

 AA> INSert key has a special function in oxp.  (I don't know how to pop
 AA> out of this editor and come back to edit the same message - yet,
 AA> 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 ;)

 AA> Martin F. wrote a wonderful english user-guide for oxp.  I would refer
 AA> to it more often if it had all the menus and submenus.  The menu
 AA> structure is phenominal - that is, so many levels and features.  Most
 AA> it, once configured, probably never needs to be reviewed again.

 AA> From the guide:

 AA> Ctl-KC - copy block to cursor position
 AA> Ctl-KV - move block to cursor position
 AA> Ctl-KY - delete block
 AA> Ctl-KW - write block to file
 AA> Ctl-KO - ROT13 encrypt block
 AA> Ctl-QB - move cursor to beginning of block
 AA> Ctl-QK - move cursor to end of block

standard wordstar stuff... looks almost like mine i listed above ;)

 AA> I like to work with blocks, inserting text, moving paragraphs around,
 AA> etc. I don't think I will ever remember the above.  But the context
 AA> sensitive help invoked with F1 is pretty good.

:)

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