Re: Keyboard changes [and html]

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≪ The user reads in the Command Reference Guide about some
feature he'd like to use, say a simple one would be the
Thesaurus. All it tells you is that it is Shift F7. ≫ --Harry

xyDos 4 documentation's worst failure. Really bizarre for
a word processor that encourages users to remap the kbd.
It would have taken such a little bit more effort to
include the func symbol as well--especially when cross
referencing is so dismal.

But to save my life I couldn't have told you what was on
default kbd F1. Since my xyWrite day one, my DF has been the
lower left corner key no matter what the key was marked--
F9 on day one, CapsLk now--with my UD key next to it,
F10 then, \ now. My XC, CC, and BC moved that day where they
are now, on prominent keys near the cursor keypad--keys marked
+, Del, and Ins now; the 5 key is my TI, the ` key just below
my BackSpace is my &D (RC and buffer chars). My DF key turns
into RD when a block is already under way (thank you, Herb).
With UD next door, no need for MV or CP and my kbd has neither.

What surprises me is that anyone did use the dreadful
default kbd long enough to know what's on any key. My map
doesn't refer to it in any way, because the only times I've
ever used it have been when using other people's computers.
The remappable kbd is what presold me on xyWrite. F1 has long
been my se key; F3 and F4 are ci and cv. F2 once was seb,
but !^v in its present form makes a seb key pretty much
superfluous, so F2 is now the dedicated key for my html
tagging table. Which brings me to the somewhat related
subject of this already overlong msg. Sorry.

Since he apparently doesn't think it's worth mentioning
publicly, I'm going to disclose a variation on a container
tagging macro Leslie Bialler shared with me that's so neat
it made me rethink xyWrite and html from the ground up.
Inserts /tag at {cp} when a tag precedes it:

00=GTSI,<,GHEL,s,e,b, , ,<, ,CIELCRCRXCXCCRXDDFGHRCCRCRWSCLXCCLDF
GH,<,XCSI,/,CPXDGHRCBDBDBDBDBDGT,>,CI

Wish I'd thought of it. It got me to thinking of DF
in the context of tagging, since the sequence undefines
an existing block and I have pgm modules that aren't kbd
macros expressly in order to manage preexisting blocks.
Never mind, I decided. And then ... comes the dawn. Am
I the last to catch on to this? This sequence requires
an ldpm (call it &C) that grabs {is00} and makes it {isC}
(change to meet your needs). DF one end of the text you want
tagged, move cursor to other end, type tag (and optionally
attributes and values) on CMline or use an html .kbd table
to put them there, and tap this key:

00=GT&CDFDBSI,<,@C,>,DE,<,/,@C, ,>,GHEL,s,e,b, , ,/,ELCRCRCIXC
CRGH, , ,WS, ,CLCLXCCLXDDFGH,>,XCCLDFRDCRGHBDBDBDBDBDRCGT

Leaves tag at the beginning of what was the block, cursor
at the end after the /tag. If block hadn't been begun,
leaves both tag and /tag at {cp}. (I immediately changed
all my MD keys except mdnm so they work the same way.)
The tag key that completes the trilogy:

00=GT&CSI,<,@C,>,CI

All sequences leave xyW in CI; season to taste. Tag and
tag/tag sequences leave the tag on the CMline--nice if you
have more text to tag the same way, not so good if you don't
unless you use xyWrite 3 !xyWise, which lets you overwrite
the tag with the preceding command or any of a dozen
archived to its command buffer. (!xyWise grabs and archives
commands, repairs those xyWrite has broken, and records the
CMline {cp} as well as profiling for restoration TI state
and CMline/text cursor location. Send anyone who tells you
it can't be done to the URL in my sig.)

!xyWise add-on !xyWWWiz http://www.escape.com/%7Eadpf/_xywwwiz.htm
is those keys and a similar set that hide tag in prompt, xyCode
pretags and pure html .kb3 tables, a xyCode pretags converter,
.kb3 macros that hide or show all tags, etc. This isn't an
approach that slips easily into the BX/Q2 mold. !xyWWWiz also
includes two files that try to add some !xyWise functionality
to xyDos 4 and NB for tagging, but they're untested since I
don't have xyDos 4 installed anymore and don't own NB. If anyone
wants to be a guinea pig, I'd love to hear whether they work.
I know xyWrite 3 !xyWWWiz does.

Thanks again, Leslie. ... Ciao. 	--a

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