Pasting Woes

[Azyael]

One of my pet peeves is in game sloppy fucking posts. An even greater pet peeve is when -I- make a sloppy post. So, because I'm anal retentive in that area I have a system down.

I type my shit up in Word and spell check it there. Then, because Words formatting sucks my ass (Or because I'm not familiar with it, take your pick) I switch it over to notepad. In notepad I manually fix the spacing and ready it to be posted on Threshold.

First question, is there an easier way? I don't truly care if I get an answer to this one. System works, old habits die hard, and I'm fairly content with the way I do it.

Now, what really pisses me off and inspired me to post this deals with the quotations, apostrophes and, "...". For some reason, they don't copy well from Word to notepad. If I don't manually delete every fucking one, and replace it in notepad, it does not copy correctly into Thresh. How do I get around this?

[Gesslar]

i'm almost done writing an editor specifically for mudding. i realize that a lot of people use different editors because they suit their needs, but some people just want an editor that works, out of the box, just how things are supposed to work.

it's going to have options like "board/mail mode" "character description mode" "house decorating mode"

my hope with house decorating mode is that you'll be able to maintain a teensy database that uses your room numbers.

it autowraps already at column 79 with a VISIBLE gutter so you know how much room you have left.

when you copy the text into the clipboard, it'll eventually insert \n's into the right spots.

[Azyael]

Originally posted by karahd
i'm almost done writing an editor specifically for mudding. i realize that a lot of people use different editors because they suit their needs, but some people just want an editor that works, out of the box, just how things are supposed to work.

it's going to have options like "board/mail mode" "character description mode" "house decorating mode"

my hope with house decorating mode is that you'll be able to maintain a teensy database that uses your room numbers.

it autowraps already at column 79 with a VISIBLE gutter so you know how much room you have left.

when you copy the text into the clipboard, it'll eventually insert \n's into the right spots.

I love you.

That sounds like exactly what I need. If that works like you say it does, hell, I'd pay for it! That would save me so much time.

[Talsek]

In the meantime, you might want to check out NoteTab Light. It's a freeware product that lets you handle multiple documents at a time (with tabs at the top), and always shows your cursor position (line and character number). The free version has some fun little features, but stepping up to a commercial verson ($20) would give you spellcheck and miscellaneous other things. It's always nice to have options :P.

[Gesslar]

I used to use Notetab, but I found a really annoying bug in the software. If you leave it open for a long time (which I tend to do with all my applications) it would give bug messages whenever I tried to save. This happened on 2k and xp.

[Gadiantor]

I use MS Word, mostly for the spell checking. I changed the default file type to save as .txt and the font to courier. That way I can set the line length in MS Word. At first I'd forget to put in hard returns now and then, but after awhile I got in the habit. All of my files save as .txt, so I can open them in any other text editor I want and they don't take up much room.

[Dalaena]

I use and recommend UltraEdit.

If I don't feel like using autowrap (which I set to 75 characters), I just highlight what I want wrapped and hit ctrl+t, and it does it for me!

[Riek]

and I'll second UltraEdit