Subj : taglines
To   : Micheal Pierce
From : Kai Richter
Date : Fri Apr 24 2020 08:59 am

Hello Micheal!

23 Apr 20, Micheal Pierce wrote to Kai Richter:

KR>> There is. Stop wasting your time of selecting taglines and
KR>> disable them. Nobody read them anyway. Just add to your config:

KR>> TAGLINESUPPORT no

MP> gee, nice attitude there !!!!

Yeah, i like the KISS principle, keep it short and simple. ;-)

MP> taglines are a *feature* some people like them, and a few don't. all
MP> I am saying is that there should be a way to randomly choose one more
MP> than the first

MP> time...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to choose then it is not randomly. You're asking for a dark light.

You want to choose because you don't like the tagline, don't you? If you don't
like a tagline then remove it from your tagline config then there is no need to
select another. Easy, isn't it?

To work around you could use the file import function. Press ALT-i with default
config in the editor. Select "File as Text" and choose your tagline file.
Delete the unwanted taglines.

Or to go back to the KISS principle, what about RTFM?

       Taglines are usually one-liner jokes or wisdom or whatever. They serve
       absolutely no technical function and are considered by some to be
       waste of diskspace and modem time. In some conferences, they may even
       be forbidden by the moderator, so if you want to use this feature,
       check the conference rules first!

       The tagline support in GoldED is currently not very advanced. You can
>       define some global taglines and manually select them from a menu,
       like you can with origins.

According to my reference docs it should be CTRL-I.
(Doesn't work here i think because taglinesupport no.)

If the system works like the origin system then you could have some kind of
sub-menus in the selection window. I have some single ORIGIN lines in the
config and then a reference mark to a different file:

ORIGIN " Monobox "
ORIGIN "You did it!"
ORIGIN "Seven holy path to hell"
ORIGIN "Ride the sky!"
ORIGIN @/golded/origin/origins.full.txt

That shows up as:

............. Origins ............
.  Monobox                       .
. You did it!                    .
. Seven holy path to hell        .
. Ride the sky!                  .
. [origins.full.txt]             .
..................................

where [origins.full.txt] can be selected and reveals the full list.
Within the random system you could use the full list as a reference.

If the tagline system does work the same way then you could create some kind of
quick access list to your favorite selections.

Regards

Kai

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