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Started by Jukka-Pekka Takala
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Re: Ibidem custom format
Author: Jukka-Pekka Takala
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
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Johan Thom writes:
> Thanks to Enrique Lynch and Pieter Botha for their help! Pieter's hint did
> the trick. How on earth did the period find its way into the help file?
I assume it was to make sure that the cursor goes to the end of the
directory and does not stop on a filename such as "CHARACTS FOR"
-- and nobody happened to test it on a file with more than 1 GB free
space. Ultimately, the problem derives from the fact that the last line of
NB's directory display is designed to show neatly only less than 100
MB free space.
By the way, deleting the trailing dot from "se char." entails the
possibility that the cursor will land on a filename that contains the
string "CHAR"; so it might be safer to turn it into something like this:
"sea Char". Even more robust would be to search for a long string of
hyphens ("sea /------------/"), but then one would have to modify some
of the following cursor movement commands as well.
j-p takala
Jukka-Pekka.Takala@Helsinki.fi
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