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Friday the 13th…

Posted by Dave at 9:23 a.m. on November 13 Comments (9)

Good morning, Netizens…

This is Friday the 13th, supposedly an unlucky day, and probably a good day to
turn off the alarm clock, call in sick or otherwise go hide beneath a rock
somewhere that no one would ordinarily find you. On second thought, since we
are about to receive a gift of snow from the heavens above, perhaps that isn’t
such a bad idea after all. After observing how people drove yesterday on the
West Plains, and then again this morning the pandemonium atop Snoqualmie Pass,
which happens to be closed Eastbound currently due to slide-offs, maybe this
would be a good day to simply call the rest of the day off.

At the request of Ryan Pitts, I am discontinuing the use of Open Office to
cut-and-paste much of my writings/musings and falling back to Plan B, a plain
ASCII text editor called Jed, because, like Microsoft Word, Open Office
contains far too much “chatter” in its headers, even when you are simply
cutting and pasting text between windows. You may notice a minor difference in
how it appears now, but probably not. Since I “live” as much of my time in my
text editor as I do in Open Office, this is not really any skin off my hide.
However others who cannot live, it seems, without Microsoft Word, Jed gives me
all the power of Office less the rattling bits of HTML code that clog up the
works.

So now we march onward into this morning’s news, hoping that my solution to
the HTML problems inherent with cutting and pasting text have solved the
problem for Ryan’s sake, and that I no longer am leaking any abhorrent pieces
of code in my writing.

Dave

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Lewis on November 13 at 10:02 a.m.
my son was born on Friday the 13th, 24 years ago, since then the 13th has been my lucky day.

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JeanieS on November 13 at 10:31 a.m.
I too have problems cutting and pasting to here. But i am successful using Wordpad - it doesn't have a mind of its own. And it would avoid all the extra hard returns you are experiencing right now. MHO

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JeanieS on November 13 at 10:32 a.m.
Congratulations, Lewis! You now have a TEENAGER!!!

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spokelooneh on November 13 at 10:49 p.m.
” … At the request of Ryan Pitts, I am discontinuing the use of Open Office to
cut-and-paste much of my writings/musings and falling back to Plan B, a plain
ASCII text editor called Jed, …”

What, no vi?

Formatting's not looking so good up there^.

I used to use an online html viewer to check my work before posting back in the day when S/R commenting software allowed HTML, haven't used it since that went away since other platforms I use have preview functions and I just use those. It was a handy tool although it had problems with LFs (linefeeds), par usual.

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Dave Laird on November 14 at 6:06 a.m.
Good morning, Spokelooneh…

Hehehe. I TRIED vi, you betcha, since I use it nearly exclusively for plain text configuration files all the time, but it has the same problem everything else seems to have. It drove me nuts, more than even Jed, which is pretty configurable. The real problem with cut and paste in Unix is that it persists in sending the inherent cr/lf sequences, hence the jagged lines you noticed.

Hey, I even tried Pico, which I haven't used in a number of years. Same-same. Formatting went into the tank.

Ryan is working on a different rich text editor, one that will allow us to use our Word-compatibles to cut and paste, which will be really dandy if it works. I have gotten so spoiled to writing in Open Office over the last few years, and without it I am really having a hard time.

However, we persist. Sorry for the formatting, though.

Dave

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Rifleman__Dodd on November 14 at 9:01 a.m.
I have an old version of Supertext 40/80 that I bought with my Apple II back in 78'. Wanna copy of it? You'll have to get used to the Control Codes for any formatting though.

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Lewis on November 14 at 9:44 a.m.
I use word 2000 and have never had a issue with copy and pasting

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Cindy H on November 15 at 11:51 a.m.
@Dave and Jeanie: Why copy and paste at all? I just type right in the little admin box. Seems like extra work to write something in Word or whatever and copy and paste it.
If spell check is the issue, Ryan says we'll soon have that option in the admin box.

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arliacne on November 16 at 11:02 a.m.
I write directly in the Admin box and Firefox does on the fly spell check, what could be simpler.

I have to use windows to do code development, but I have removed and deactivated access to iexplorer.exe on every box I work from.

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