Hello Martin!


What are we supposed to make use of out of the glossary.cfg?

It seems to contain short-codes that we can use and >OXP< makes
substitutions at some point?

Tying some of them below:

Marker for beginning of included text
s+<

Marker for end of included text
s-<

General snip marker
8-<

Miscellaneous stuff

XP<
OXP<

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Hello August!

On 17.04.19 at 21:51, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

What are we supposed to make use of out of the glossary.cfg?

This is an example of a poor choice of words by the original OpenXP developers. In no way can it be described as a glossary, perhaps
"library" would have been the better choice because it's a collection
of snippets which can be quickly imported into a message.

It seems to contain short-codes that we can use and >OXP< makes substitutions at some point?

Yes, that's exactly what it is but it's something I never use these
days. However, since you've brought the matter up, I can think of a
number of uses to which it could be put, notably, "canned" responses
to questions :-))

Regards,
Martin

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Hello Martin!

** 18.04.19 - 13:24, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

It seems to contain short-codes that we can use and >OXP< makes
substitutions at some point?

Yes, that's exactly what it is but it's something I never use these
days. However, since you've brought the matter up, I can think of a
number of uses to which it could be put, notably, "canned" responses
to questions :-))

They don't seem to be working as short-codes/substitutions as the file suggests.

Maybe they *are* just shorthand text for general use?

But it would be very nice for example to just put >s+< in the body of the text have it autofill into:

-------- [Snip] ---------


The first two paragraphs in the glossary.cfg file intrigue me, they seem
to imply that we can control the visibility of text with the ">" and "<" chars. That is, create an auto-snip for large parts of text.


../|ug

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Hello August!

On 18.04.19 at 22:03, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

It seems to contain short-codes that we can use and >OXP< makes
substitutions at some point?

Yes, that's exactly what it is but it's something I never use these
days. However, since you've brought the matter up, I can think of a
number of uses to which it could be put, notably, "canned" responses
to questions :-))

They don't seem to be working as short-codes/substitutions as the
file suggests.

Read the second paragraph of "glossary.cfg" again :)

However, what it doesn't say is how to actually use the glossary
function.

Maybe they *are* just shorthand text for general use?

But it would be very nice for example to just put >s+< in the body of the text have it autofill into:

-------- [Snip] ---------

Maybe it would but the glossary function doesn't work like that.

Place the cursor at the start of a *blank line* in your message and
press <Alt-G>. Cursor down the list to ">s+<" and press <Enter> and
see what happens.

The first two paragraphs in the glossary.cfg file intrigue me,
they seem to imply that we can control the visibility of text
with the ">" and "<" chars. That is, create an auto-snip for
large parts of text.

Nope, anything placed between the ">" and "<" characters is
interpreted as a comment or to put it another way, it's interpreted as
the title of the snippet.

Regards,
Martin

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Hello August!

## 21.04.19 at 01:24, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

Read the second paragraph of "glossary.cfg" again :)

However, what it doesn't say is how to actually use the glossary
function.

Place the cursor at the start of a *blank line* in your message and
press <Alt-G>. Cursor down the list to ">s+<" and press <Enter> and
see what happens.

OMG! The Alt-G was the revelation.

This feature is SO badly worded in the glossary.cfg.

Improved in the next release.

Regards,
Martin

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Hello Martin,

On 18.05.19, you wrote to August Abolins:

OMG! The Alt-G was the revelation.

AA>> This feature is SO badly worded in the glossary.cfg.

Improved in the next release.

That's great news! Thanks.



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