Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.programming Subject: Re: misc: multi-line editing/evaluation... Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:10:07 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 1sJtcFoJ+gWl8mxHhC9WoA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.2001 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.2001 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:1058 comp.programming:1363 "BGB" wrote in message news:jjrj81$7vi$1@news.albasani.net... > [...] > as-is, it uses kind of a lame/hack interface for loading/saving though: > "ALT-;" toggles between text-entry mode and console mode (sort of, one > first has to type "*start_edit" to bring up the text editor initially). > could also consider "CTRL-SHIFT-:" or "CTRL-;" here. > Up for another "bizarre" idea? It sounds like you're actually using a video-card text mode for the text-entry mode ... Are you? Can't you create your own "sprites" for an ASCII font and use them for "text" in your graphics console mode? You can make them see-through that way. Didn't you say your text was see-through ... ? If you've done it this way, I don't understand what the problem is. Rod Pemberton