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Article #4914Re: CygnusEdPro macros
From: Larry Phillips
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 04:17
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 04:17
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In <13837@cbmvax.commodore.com>, peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
>In article <david.5634@starsoft.UUCP> david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>>I just bought CygnusEdPro, and am having a few problems defining
>>macros.
>>
>>I want to bind "Save & Quit" to SHIFT-F3.
>>Any ideas on how I can do this????
>
>Not with a macro. Since the macro recording is literal, it actually
>quits you without giving you a chance to save the macro.
>
>You may be able to do it with an ARexx script. Make one called
>SaveQuit.ced that does nothing. Then bind that to Shift-F3 with
>Amiga-m, then the menuitem "Send DOS/ARexx command" then type
>SaveQuit.ced into the requester, reply "yes" to the "store contents"
>query, then Amiga-m. Then modify the SaveQuit.ced script to
>actually do a save & quit.
Might be easier just to have the script do the Save&Quit.
-larry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro macros Message-ID: <1881@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 16 Aug 90 04:17:12 GMT Lines: 30 Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips> To: van-bc!rnews