Is there a way to get either the ICE or DCT edits to have either the header chage color, or the To: field to change color of messages to you?
When writing a message, the 'To' field has the name of the person you're writing to, which is usually someone else.. Do you often write messages to yourself?
When writing a message, the 'To' field has the name of the person
you're writing to, which is usually someone else.. Do you often
write messages to yourself?
No, but when they reply, it does. I want replies to me highlighted.
When using DDMR (Dig.Dist. Message Reader) and SlyEdit(DCT). When I am going through a message scan, I can hit right arrow or left arrow and it shows next or previous messages. As I go through the messages, I would like messages that are to me to be a different color. I go through the different echoes each day, starting where I left off the day before. I read or scan most all messages in the base. I want the ones that are addressed to me to be a different color, so it stands out.
When using DDMR (Dig.Dist. Message Reader) and SlyEdit(DCT). When I am going through a message scan, I can hit right arrow or left arrow and it shows next or previous messages. As I go through the messages, I would like messages that are to me to be a different color. I go through the different echoes each day, starting where I left off the day before. I read or scan most all messages in the base. I want the ones that are addressed to me to be a different color, so it stands out.
Ah, I see. That would be in my message reader then. SlyEdit would have nothing to do with that. I could probably add that.
When you're using the built-in generated header in my message reader, it could do that, but if you're using a custom ANSI message header, then it would likely not be able to do that.
When writing a message, the 'To' field has the name of the person
you're writing to, which is usually someone else.. Do you often
write messages to yourself?
No, but when they reply, it does. I want replies to me highlighted.
When you're using the built-in generated header in my message reader,
it could do that, but if you're using a custom ANSI message header,
then it would likely not be able to do that.
Cool. That would be bitchin'. I don't use the list feature, I go message by message. But either would be nice.
When you're using the built-in generated header in my message
reader, it could do that, but if you're using a custom ANSI message
header, then it would likely not be able to do that.
it should be able to do that easily when it inserts the name into the field... just inject the color change with the name and then set it back immediately at the end of the name... of am i maybe thinking deeper in the code than where DDMR operates?
My message reader does have a feature where in the list mode, it can show messages to you in a different color. To customize that, you can look in the color theme file for my lister (by default, DefaultTheme.cfg) and look for the configuration items with names starting with "msgListToUser". It should be already customized to show messages in the list to you in a different color/attribute (such as bright).
So I'm a little confused on where you want the highlight to show up.. When someone else is writing a message with SlyEdit, you're not going to see their session; the only time you'd see the "To" field is when you are writing a message, where the "To" field would specify the other person you're writing to.
When using DDMR (Dig.Dist. Message Reader) and SlyEdit(DCT). When I am going through a message scan, I can hit right arrow or left arrow and it shows next or previous messages. As I go through the messages, I would like messages that are to me to be a different color.
I go through the different echoes each day, starting where I left off the day before. I read or scan most all messages in the base.
I want the ones that are addressed to me to be a different color, so it stands out.
Ah, I see. That would be in my message reader then. SlyEdit would have nothing to do with that. I could probably add that.
Ah, I see. That would be in my message reader then. SlyEdit would
have nothing to do with that. I could probably add that.
Man, didn't even realize this was a thing... is this in CVS, is the one on your site the latest?
http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/DigDistBBSStuff/DigDistBBSStuff.html
When using DDMR (Dig.Dist. Message Reader) and SlyEdit(DCT). When I am
going through a message scan, I can hit right arrow or left arrow and
it shows next or previous messages. As I go through the messages, I
would like messages that are to me to be a different color. I go
through the different echoes each day, starting where I left off the
day before. I read or scan most all messages in the base. I want the
ones that are addressed to me to be a different color, so it stands
out.
You'd need a custom message header for that. There's a lot of functionality supported now, but it's not the DCT/SlyEdit that does the reading headers.
Re: IceEdit
By: Mike Powell to Nightfox on Mon Nov 24 2025 13:00:37
Yeah, ok in DCT mode it also does not work.
Quoting works the same in ICE and DCT mode.
What do you mean by "does not show any quoted text"? You're pressing Ctrl-Q (or using the /Q command) but the quote window is not coming up?
What do you mean by "does not show any quoted text"? You're pressing
Ctrl-Q (or using the /Q command) but the quote window is not coming up?
So quoting a message doesn't work like it does for the other in/external editors, i.e. the text shows up when the editor opens? I didn't try any commands because it would not have crossed my mind to do so.
OK, that does work, just not like I would have expected. Thanks.
So quoting a message doesn't work like it does for the other in/external editors, i.e. the text shows up when the editor opens? I didn't try any commands because it would not have crossed my mind to do so.
OK, that does work, just not like I would have expected. Thanks.
referring to Synchronet's msgeditor, and JSEditor.
By "JSEditor", do you mean fseditor, or is JSEditor another editor I
wasn't aware of?
quoted text I'm replying to, than have the entire thread quoted on startup a have to delete/remove a bunch of text that I'm not replying to. Especially w
YES! Because almost nobody does that! They just leave the whole damn
thing!
You may already know this about Level 29.. It also just puts the entire message as a quote when replying, but it doesn't let you save/post the message if the text-to-quote ratio isn't high enough :). A lot of people probably don't like that idea, though.
Correct, SlyEdit doesn't automatically show text for quoting on startup. Qu
Is there something in the documentation or help screens that you think could editor). If you have any suggestions for improving the documentation, pleas
By "JSEditor", do you mean fseditor, or is JSEditor another editor I wasn't aware of?
Most likely. I actually questioned that myself when I wrote it, but I figure
I was actuallly hoping maybe you didn't mean FSEditor. I tried it and it really doesn't work too good. When the screen came up, the cursor was in the top window but attempting to type anything seemed to manipulate what was in the bottom window (i.e. the quoted text)... but the "manipulation" did not include any of the keys that were being pressed.
Luckily, CTRL-Q was the one keypress combo I tried that *did* work. ;)
I am using NANO now for myself as it seems to do what I want. The users will be stuck with the internal editor.
I am using NANO now for myself as it seems to do what I want. The users will be stuck with the internal editor.
While I think vi(m) is a great editor for programming, I think nano is /much/ better suited for this hobby specifically, as far as writing and replying to text messages goes. Then again, I prefer nano over vi(m) any time, so that's probably a pretty biased opinion. ;)
I'm not sure what "Level 29" is. I tried DDG, but it came up as a restaurant
While I think vi(m) is a great editor for programming, I think nano is /much/ better suited for this hobby specifically, as far as writing and replying to text messages goes. Then again, I prefer nano over vi(m) any time, so that's probably a pretty biased opinion. ;)
quoted text I'm replying to, than have the entire thread quoted on startup have to delete/remove a bunch of text that I'm not replying to. Especially
YES! Because almost nobody does that! They just leave the whole damn thing!
I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am
also very biased towards nano. ;)
I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am also very biased towards nano. ;)
I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am also
very biased towards nano. ;)
This made me cackle. I keep trying the neovim version of vim and vim itself, and would truly like to become proficient in it, but always find solace in nanolicking my wounds.
Accession wrote to Mike Powell <=-
I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am
also very biased towards nano. ;)
It doesn't matter how many times I've used vi(m), I will /always/ think that I'm in edit mode right when I open it. Just a natural reaction, or something, but I start arrowing around and try to type something, just
to have it yell at me and realize that I have to get out of
read/command mode.
.. and I know you can launch vim in "easy" mode (-y), but I never
remember to do that and that's completely besides the point, because at that point you may as well just use nano. ;)
Hahaha, yep. I use nano for nearly every text-editing task
(including writing this message from within MultiMail). The one use
I still have for vim is that it can deal with "Ctrl-A" codes in a
SBBS file. In case it wasn't widely known, you can add a Ctrl-A code
in vim by first doing "Ctrl-V", then "Ctrl-A", then the actual color
code or whatever. I don't know another "plain" text editor that does
that. Very useful to me every now and then.
Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-
Hahaha, yep. I use nano for nearly every text-editing task
(including writing this message from within MultiMail). The one use
I still have for vim is that it can deal with "Ctrl-A" codes in a
SBBS file. In case it wasn't widely known, you can add a Ctrl-A code
in vim by first doing "Ctrl-V", then "Ctrl-A", then the actual color
code or whatever. I don't know another "plain" text editor that does
that. Very useful to me every now and then.
I just tested this and it works. You have to be in insert mode, so hit
"i" first.
Thanks for that tidbit. That can definitely come in handy! I think I've just used nano by cutting an entire line with the CTRL-A codes on them (using CTRL-K), pasting it again (and again, if needbe, using CTRL-U)
so I have a bunch I can change the color codes on. This would
definitely make things easier, though. ;)
I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am also
It doesn't matter how many times I've used vi(m), I will /always/ think that I'm in edit mode right when I open it. Just a natural reaction, or something
phigan wrote to Mike Powell <=-
I'm a firm believer that if you use vi enough, you will eventually be unable to live without it.
I may have told this story before, but I'm very much used to not always being in edit mode. Often I will find myself trying to "arrow" around
with h, j, k, and l in things like Notepad. Well, one time I was typing
Why can't Outlook have a 'vi mode'? :/ I think everything should.
Why can't Outlook have a 'vi mode'? :/ I think everything should.
I can't bring myself to agree with you, there. It seems most other software on both Windows and Linux has moved on to using ALT- and CTRL- hotkeys (possibly even Outlook), which is much more what I'm used to.
Accession wrote to phigan <=-
I may have told this story before, but I'm very much used to not always being in edit mode. Often I will find myself trying to "arrow" around
with h, j, k, and l in things like Notepad. Well, one time I was typing
That's something that would take me forever to get used to, as well.
Those letters are all side by side. At the very least, they could have used the gaming keys (w, a, s, d), but alas. I like using the actual
arrow keys these days. :)
I can't bring myself to agree with you, there. It seems most other software both Windows and Linux has moved on to using ALT- and CTRL- hotkeys (possibl
I can't bring myself to agree with you, there. It seems most other
software both Windows and Linux has moved on to using ALT- and
CTRL- hotkeys (possibl
That's because keyboards have so many more keys and characters these days! ;)
Na, but what could it hurt to just have the option, ya know?
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