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Post by George on Apr 12, 2020 12:42:39 GMT -5
Robert: I'll see if I can manage something.
Meanwhile MUEH found a couple terrible bugs. So I figured them out and in the process found that my test version no longer does HILITE FIND. No changes in that area at all, but ..... Sigh!
G.
==> I made a few edits to the spec, mostly typo fixes and clarifications
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Post by George on Apr 13, 2020 12:33:04 GMT -5
Robert: OK, I've put in some stuff for CUT. The syntax is now:
CUT
[ name ]
[ line-control-range ]
[ ALL ]
[ X | NX ]
[ U | NU ]
[ DELETE/DEL ]
[ REPLACE/REP | NEW ]
[ APPEND/ADD ]
[ RAW ]
And there is a new General Option to specify NEW as a default for CUT. I did not put in a global option for APPEND/ADD, I just don't think anyone would ever want that as a default.
George
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Post by George on Apr 13, 2020 15:29:54 GMT -5
Robert: Yes, new global option is for CUT NEW, ON or OFF.
I'm trying to get a new release out with all these latest bug fixes for the problems MUEH found, along with your suggestions (and his) and the new XFORM stuff. Been fairly busy lately. I'm really going to have to try and stop all this activity, we're supposed to be in retirement mode.
I'm pushing 78 now, I'd really like to pass this on to someone (Anyone?!) else to carry forward. However, till then, we'll just keep pushing on and doing our best.
Is this what dying in harness means?
George
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Post by George on Apr 14, 2020 9:20:38 GMT -5
From the Free Dictionary:
die in harness, to
To keep on working to the end. The analogy of a draft horse working until it drops dates from Shakespeare’s time (or earlier). “At least we’ll die with harness on our back,” says Macbeth before his fateful battle with Macduff (Macbeth, 5.5). Such a death, incidentally, is considered desirable and admirable. “It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward,” said the American preacher Henry Ward Beecher (Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887). Precisely the same is meant by to die with one’s boots on, although more likely this expression comes from the battlefield (soldiers dying on active duty).
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