Subj : Message editor
To   : fluid
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jun 03 2024 12:09:44

  Re: Message editor
  By: fluid to Digital Man on Mon Jun 03 2024 02:22 pm

 >   Re: Message editor
 >   By: Digital Man to Fluid on Mon Jun 03 2024 11:15 am
 >
 >  > The message editor choices available to all users in a fresh Synchronet
 >  > install:
 >  > 1. The built-in/internal line editor
 >  > 2. Deuce's fseditor.js
 >  > 3. Nightfox's slyedit.js (in ICEedit mode)
 >  > 4. Nightfox's slyedit.js (in DCTedit mode)
 >
 > FSEditor seems to be what you use if you do not make any changes at all to a
 > new installation, unless some of those get chosen based on terminal
 > capabilities. That is good info to have and I appreciate you passing it
 > along.

ANSI terminal is required for the external editors (above).

 > I will have to give Nightfox's editors a look. This one (FSEditor) gets
 > weird with backspace and delete. Earlier they acted reversed (on your BBS I
 > believe). Here on my own board they are functioning as I would expect. I am
 > not sure why.

My SlyEdit install on Vertrauen wasn't up-to-date, so that's now fixed. Backspace/delete reversal is usually the result of using a non-ANSI/BBS terminal. That's probably something already addressed in the latest SlyEdit.
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