Re: XE command. Got the whole thing set up, I think properly; with a file
open, commanding XE, the spawned terminal that seems to accompany the
opening of xyscript posted this message: 'sh: start: command not found'. A
little beyond my pay grade. FW
On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM Fred Weiner <fw1948@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm puzzled that you had to reconstruct your KBD file outside of XyScript
>> to get it working -- especially since you never complained about having
>> trouble editing your KBD file before now.
>>
>
> If you're puzzled, imagine how puzzled I am! To clarify, with the kbd file
> open, editing by placing the modified QUIT command (ctrl+shift Q :45=SaveCM
> $XSDIR/cm-history.xpl;QUIT) on ctrl+shift Q (replacing, and commenting out,
> BUFPREV, which I might come back to later when I know what it is and decide
> to use it, then attempting to save, that's when I got the OS error. At that
> point impatience prevailed and I went outside to get it to work. And many
> thanks for calling my attention to XE. I'd seen that in the manual but like
> so much else, it went to the back burner. FW
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM Carl Distefano <
> dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Reply to note from Fred Weiner <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 2 Oct
>> 2026 19:45:49 -0700
>>
>> > Saving command history across sessions working fine now.
>>
>> Good to hear, Fred. I'm puzzled that you had to reconstruct your KBD file
>> outside of XyScript to get it working -- especially since you never
>> complained about having trouble editing your KBD file before now.
>>
>> By the way, the XE ("eXternal Editor") library routine allows you to open
>> the current file in the editor of your choice simply by commanding `XE`.
>> You just need to set user variable $ExternalEditor -- see instructions in
>> user-variables.template.
>>
>> > Another thing I've noticed, double or triple mouse-clicking a word
>> > or line does not define (select) anything, which appears to be what
>> > should happen according to the manual
>>
>> You're right. This will be fixed in the next release.
>>
>> --
>> Carl Distefano
>> cld@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>