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perrs
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 Posted - May 31 2005 : 12:07:11 PM
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How do I make the ff-sign that ends an autotext? And are there other such special symbols?
Is it possible to 'paste' in an autotext and thereby use the content of the clipholder as part of the expanded autotext? |
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
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Posted - May 31 2005 : 12:10:41 PM
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a) Right now you'd need to copy & paste it from previous entries.
b) Planned for the next few builds. |
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perrs
New Member
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Posted - May 31 2005 : 12:36:31 PM
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By accident I found out that ctrl + s produces a similar to the ff-sign but with the text DC3.
Similarly, ctrl + f produces one with the text ACK.
There are also others. What is the purpose of these? Is there a description of all there meanings somewhere? |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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perrs
New Member
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Posted - May 31 2005 : 1:37:10 PM
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| As far as I can read this page doesn't say anything about these symbols. Did you read my post properly? |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - May 31 2005 : 2:32:56 PM
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i have never seen a keyboard shortcut posted to enter these characters.
if you use VIM then you can use the "insert literal key press" option to insert the end of block character using CTLR-L. i am not sure what would happen in other text editing programs, but i am guessing this would not always be inserted into the text.
the caret position here character is producing an ASCII value of 167. off hand i don't know how you would type that into an editor.
personally i just open the tpl file in notepad, copy an existing entry (so i get the right format and these characters) then i edit it to suit my needs. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - May 31 2005 : 4:48:59 PM
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This FF sign does just this:
Show VAX that the next entry is beginning (or the last entry ends). Nothing more. It has no meaning other than that. Just copy one from an existing autotext-entry and paste it at the position you need it. No other purpose... |
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jpizzi
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Jun 01 2005 : 12:17:12 AM
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To type ASCII 167, hold down the <ALT> key, and type 167 on the numeric keypad.
As for what characters you get when you type <CTRL>-<something>, just look at an ASCII table at the entries below decimal 26. Each <CTRL>-<something> corresponds to the ASCII entry for that character position (A is 1, B is 2, etc.). |
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perrs
New Member
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Posted - Jun 01 2005 : 04:07:35 AM
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| I tried looking at an ASCII table concerning those special symbols, but it was not the same as I got in the autotext editor. Besides, I'm still curious to what they mean. |
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru
Germany
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Posted - Jun 01 2005 : 04:26:57 AM
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VAX uses Neil Hodgsons Scintilla (http://www.scintilla.org/) Editor.
You could ask him why he chose those FF for some "non-printable" chars and what they mean.
In VAX, they have just one meaning, which I explained above. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Jun 01 2005 : 2:05:51 PM
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Originally posted by jpizzi
To type ASCII 167, hold down the <ALT> key, and type 167 on the numeric keypad.
*doh* normally i remember you can do that 
perrs is WannabeeDeveloper's explanation making sense? these characters have no meaning, other than saying "put caret here" and "the rule stops here" |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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