Thanks Harry and Carl re the color files ... I will definitely keep this ...... I had already created a useful file myself (attached, just fyi ) ... I'd be interested in what that file looks like to you guys -- ....... (Oh, I left in the non-color numbers past 256 because I wanted to look at that again ... maybe learn something interesting .... the result was not exactly what I expected here ....... I created the file by 10s up to 100, then copied twice and globally edited for the 100s and then the 200s ... I decided to see what happened .... this is what happened) .... With this format, I can scroll through and see what the cursor looks like in the situations close to what I encounter in my work .... I can easily pick out enough colors for me to be able to operate in non-full-screen mode if I HAD to .. that dot in column one is a flag I set in my four-column gutter .... I have worn the N off my N key, hitting alt-N to go to next dot in column 1 ... (this forces me to do a line-by-line review or edit ... as I review a line, I turn off the dot --I can always find my place .... in a typical index project I do that dedot procedure about four times ...) And there's always more than one way to skin a cat.... I realize that I'm not locked into setting color by using the 8 modes (my use of colors kind of evolved, without my studying colors) ... I can insert an MDnn command and associated MDNM command to block off text in a color .... so won't have to keep modifying PRN file ... (just fyi .. one way I use color is to block off a section of "raw" data in an index, and put it in a subfile, but leave the original raw data in my main file to be available to searches (I insert name of subfile at head of blocked data) ... I turn this initial-raw-data a distinctive color, so that when I land in it during a search, I know this is "inactive" data ...... I edit and rewrite and reorganize to finalized index entry in those subfiles ... (managing those subfiles with dir's by size, or by time, or by name-- is one reason I don't like using the state-of-the-art indexing software, in which you can only edit within one record at a time ...) .. I also can move data to the end of the index and keep it for searches -- but color code it as inactive-but-edited, when I'm editing for a tight index and have to get it as short as possible .... this stuff can be in pretty good shape, and I can put it back into the index if I get index too short ... helps me hit a target size ... I use a different color for that data .... There are other things I code .... all with macros, or shorthand, to make it as easy as possible .... Another problem with non-full-screen, though, is how close the lines are together. I tried to get them spaced out a little (when I got this computer, not yesterday) ... and did not succeed. Might try again .... and then ask list why it didn't work .... The full-screen just stretches everything vertically a little bit, and makes it so much easier to read .... but I could get used to that ...... I could not get used to not being able to easily find the cursor .... .Thanks all. MargeAttachment: COLORS.MHC
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