
assorted notes that didn't fit anywhere else. I'm *still* looking for a 
volunteer who writes the FEddy-manual. :)

partly in german


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From: Andreas Foerster (2:2448/655.8)
Send: 21 Jan 98  22:28:42
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 FZ> Das suche ich auch schon laenger. Feddi laeuft zwar im Xterm,
 FZ> ich habe im Editor nur keinen Coursor ;( Wenn du was rausfindest
 FZ> bitte mailden :)

Ich hab das jetzt folgendermassen eingebunden:
xterm -cr green +sb -T FEddi -geometry 80x40 -fn 8x13 -e fmbedit &

Wenn Du nur eine Aufloesung von 640x480 benutzt, solltest Du lieber 7x14 als
Schriftgroesse verwenden und maxinmal 80x30 als geometry.

Um das versehentliche Schliessen von xterm und das Veraendern der
Fenstergroesse zu verhindern, hab ich unter Fvwm2 noch folgende Zeile
eingetragen:
Style "FEddi"  NoHandles, NoButton 1, NoButton 3, NoButton 2

Bis auf die Tastatur laeuft alles Okay. Mit den Tasten gibt es aber Probleme.
Vor allem mit der Meta-Taste. Als Alternative kann man aber Esc gefolgt von
der gewuenschten Taste verwenden.

Wenn Du eine Loesung bezueglich der Tastatur findest, bitte mailen. ;- )

Tschuess,
  Andreas

  
  

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From: Tom Vogt
Send: 04 April 98
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although it is often not clear from the context, several searches throughout
FEddy appear to conform to the Regular Expression standard. This means if you
know what a regular expression is, you can easily make and/or/xor or whatever
searches, and the FEddy-Search function even allows you to specify more than
one location of where to search (i.e. you can look in both, Subject and From
for example).
If you don't know what a regular expression is, go out and learn it. It's
worth it, really.
I'm not sure where exactly regex searches are allowed, I recommend that if in
doubt, you just give it a try.




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Send: 04 April 98
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quick 'n' dirty guide to colors:

FEddy knows the following color-styles in mails: 

*bold*, /italic/ and _underline_

as in the examples here, to mark a word in one of the styles, set a * / or _
in front and after the word.
There can be NO spaces inside marks! *this will not work* - *but* *this* *will*
Also, styles cannot be nested - *this-will-/be/-bold-only* - the italics around
the "be" will be ignored.
Also, there have to be spaces immediatly in front and after the marks. 
this/will/notwork. It's a limitation that's necessary if you read areas
about programming, where words like "gtk_button_new(whatever)" are common and
the intend is NOT to underline the "button" part.

when FEddy finds style-marks, it colors the word they surround according to
the color entries for BoldText, ItalicText or UnderlinedText and removes the
style-marks in the display, unless you specify "HideSyntax = FALSE" in your
.feddirc.
In edit mode, the style-marks will always be visible.

currently, there are no different styles for these styles depending on whether
they are in a quote or not, i.e. a *bold* word will always be marked with the
BoldText color, no matter where it is in the mail.





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From: Tom Vogt
Send: 04 April 98
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one note about the tosspath thing:

when you use tosspath to copy/move files from NETMAIL (maybe others?), ftoss
does for whatever reason remove the AKA from the mail, so that you cannot
netreply (M-n) anymore.
My current workaround takes the REPLYTO part of the Kludge lines and puts it
into the From-Aka. Yes, that does mean that the mail will suddenly have a
From-Aka after you net-replied to it. Yes, one could make this much better,
but this one works. If you're not satisfied - send in a patch. :)




