Re: [StrongED] Re: Regular Search and Replace on a key?

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <50e1eb0af8Lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:

> I shall not respond to the rest of your email as you appear, to me, to be
> getting adversarial.

Very sorry about that. I certainly did not intended that.

> So I get an email: I wish to refer the punter to a www page.
>
> I cannot do much keyboard work - I have problems with aching hands. so I
> do not wish ro (mis)type every URL.

I too prefer to minimize use of the keyboard.

> So shift-drag the source of the page from a RO directory - and edit it.
>
> Or I open FTPc and shift-drag from that. Slightly less editiing.

OK, I think I understand now. The shift-dragging will produce an
absolute pathname, so you need to chop off an appropriate prefix,
switch the slashes and dots, and then add a new prefix to create
the URL in a form that your correspondent can click on to read from the
server where the file is hosted?

> BTW: RO does hard spaces in filenames.

So it does, alas.

> BTW2: URL = Universal etc ... If/when the file is on RISC OS it uses Risc
> OS paths.

Re BTW2, I think we are at cross-purposes, each using the acronym
differently. I was intending, and reading, Wikipedia's sense of it.
No great matter.

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