> > > 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.)
Re the first part, my current editor setup is
# editor program
editor=c:\qed3\q.exe
Note that no parameters are sent to Qedit and it opens the quoted
article for editing. This saves my having to "page" from one window to
another since Yarn exports just one article/mail at a time.
Should I change the shell to editor command to
# editor program
editor=c:\qed3\q.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 ...
I would get the quoted article/mail in one window "pane", a blank reply
in pane #2 etc.
> > 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 abhor saving messages/articles I want to reply/followup to to text
files as I then have to include the quote chars manually.
> 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.
Right on. Being such a lazy person I expect that the hardware and
software should make it a breeze for me.
James