Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!psuvax1!psuvm!blekul11!ghgaqz4 From: GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: TurboText demo Message-ID: <91086.151212GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> Date: 27 Mar 91 15:11:12 GMT References: <91077.151224GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <91080.143453GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <20059@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center Lines: 25 >(Ives Aerts) writes: >>That's not what I meant. I don't want to change the definition >>file every time I make a new macro and want to assign it to a >>key. CygnusEd lets you record a macro and assign it to a key in >>the program. I use this a lot for reformatting lists etc. without >>saving the macro. Correct me if I'm wrong but in turbotext I'ld >>have to write a macro (no recording ?) and put it in the >>config file. > >TurboText does support recorded macros, although one at a time. You can save >these recorded macros as ARexx scripts. This is handy since you can record >stuff to create the skeleton of a macro and then add more fancy stuff >yourself. Yes indeed, that's the problem. Only one at a time. In CED I very often use the ability to record MORE than one macro. I don't think this is very difficult to change. Please ... ? >>Yes indeed. But I'd like hime to do even better 8^) > >...working... Make it really magnificent. Jorrit Tyberghein