Re: (no subject)
Re: (no subject)
- Subject: Re: (no subject)
- From: SemiColon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:02:18 -0800
At 7:25 PM -0600 11/26/00, JollyRoger wrote:
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on 11/26/2000 4:57 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> On 11/26/00 2:33 PM, "JollyRoger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> on 11/26/2000 4:25 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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>>> For some reason, some people have started to post scripts here
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using commas
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>>> to represent the continuation character (made by option-L), which gets
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>>> mangled by server, as does SE's soft-wrapping if you simply leave it out.
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>> It's not that people are purposefully using commas in scripts -
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it's due to
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>> the way the list server processes special characters. The option-L
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>> character is changed to a comma when it is encountered in a message.
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>> , <-- see?
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> Aha - I didn't know that. Sorry, everyone. For some reason, I thought I'd
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> only started seeing that recently.
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Hey Paul,
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You are correct in that it started happening when Apple changed to the new
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servers.
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> Oh well, now that everyone knows ... (maybe you could remember to say
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> something when pasting option-Ls in?)
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The only reason for using option-L is to shorten line length to prevent line
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wrap. Given that the server now makes the situation worse by changing
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option-L to a comma, maybe we should stop using option-L in posts, unless it
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is something the admins are willing to fix.
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Or maybe the server can be configured to allow these characters like the
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good old days? List admin(s) what say ye?
And, if not, maybe something like this in OSA Menu or OneClick to run
just before pasting into your emailer.
set clipper to the clipboard as string
tell AppleScript
set text item delimiters to tab
set varList to clipper's text items
set text item delimiters to " "
set text1 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to ">" --less than or equal to
set varList to text1's text items
set text item delimiters to "<="
set text2 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to "" --greater than or equal to
set varList to text2's text items
set text item delimiters to ">="
set text3 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to "" --not equal to
set varList to text3's text items
set text item delimiters to "/="
set text4 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to ",
" --that' option-L and return
set varList to text4's text items
set text item delimiters to ""
set text5 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to "+" --left chevron
set varList to text5's text items
set text item delimiters to "ASCII character 199"
set text6 to varList as text
set text item delimiters to ";" --right chevron
set varList to text6's text items
set text item delimiters to "ASCII character 200"
set clipper to varList as text
set text item delimiters to {""}
end tell
set the clipboard to clipper
;