> From: james@sn.no (James Huang)
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 1996 3:55 PM
> To: yarn-list@lists.Colorado.EDU
> Subject: Re: Threading and other functionality Was: Usenet vs BBS
>
> In article <x4$Rnq2BbED9079yn@cnct.com>, jstein@cnct.com (Judy Stein) wrote:
>
> > I *think* you can set Yarn to tell the editor to open two windows, a
> > blank one for the actual reply and the other one containing the text
> > of what you're responding to.
>
> | This can be done but at present, AFAIK, Yarn does not support exporting
> | several (to be quoted) articles simultaneously.
(Just to avoid possible confusion, my comment quoted above was
with reference to the matter of whether you have the entire
quoted text of the post/message you're responding to in the reply
window, or whether you have a blank reply window and mark the
text to be quoted in another window and bring it into the reply
window. Different issue from being able to quote from many
articles/messages simultaneously.)
> here I use an editor (dos) called XyWrite, and IT provides the
> ability to open TEN files at the same time and to cut and paste
> between them. (I rarely use it for more than 3 at a time...)
The editor I use for messaging, called SLED, can open as many
files as there is room for in memory, and the program itself uses
only about 27K. XyWrite is my WP of choice for other tasks, but
it seems like using a hydrogen bomb to kill a flea to use it for
messaging!
> Why demand every bell and whistle be put into Yarn when the
> choice of your editor could solve the same problem, with a program
> that is refined within its field of application?
Well, er, you can only use XyWrite (or any other editor) for this
purpose when the articles/messages in question have first been
saved to text files. I understood James to have been referring
to the ability to open any article/message in the reader's base,
without having to save it to a text file first.
So it's rather a different problem being addressed here.
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