Hello August!

On 18.04.19 at 22:03, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> It seems to contain short-codes that we can use and >OXP< makes
 AA>>> substitutions at some point?

 MF>> Yes, that's exactly what it is but it's something I never use these
 MF>> days. However, since you've brought the matter up, I can think of a
 MF>> number of uses to which it could be put, notably, "canned" responses
 MF>> to questions :-))

 AA> They don't seem to be working as short-codes/substitutions as the
 AA> file suggests.

Read the second paragraph of "glossary.cfg" again 

However, what it doesn't say is how to actually use the glossary  
function.

 AA> Maybe they *are* just shorthand text for general use?

 AA> But it would be very nice for example to just put >s+< in the body of the
 AA> text have it autofill into:

 AA>         -------- [Snip] ---------

Maybe it would but the glossary function doesn't work like that.

Place the cursor at the start of a *blank line* in your message and  
press <Alt-G>. Cursor down the list to ">s+<" and press <Enter> and  
see what happens.

 AA> The first two paragraphs in the glossary.cfg file intrigue me,
 AA> they seem to imply that we can control the visibility of text
 AA> with the ">" and "<" chars.  That is, create an auto-snip for
 AA> large parts of text.

Nope, anything placed between the ">" and "<" characters is  
interpreted as a comment or to put it another way, it's interpreted as  
the title of the snippet.

Regards,
Martin

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