SNIPPER 2.5 Quoting Functions (Options "Q" and "M"):


SNIPPER is a TSR designed to give users the ability to "paste" text from one
application into another.  SNIPPER saves text either to an internal buffer or
to a file.  Text saved to the internal buffer can be recalled as keyboard
input at a later time.

SNIPPER, version 2.5, has been enhanced to allow users of communications
programs to have a message quoting function, which is a major feature lacking
from most of these programs.
 
Invoke SNIPPER by putting it in your communications batch file or your 
autoexec.bat file.  It doesn't take up a lot of memory, (under 4k bytes ) so
it is not too demanding.

In a communications program, to quote text use your "scrollback" function
to get the text you want to quote onto the screen. Type ALT-W (that is, hold
down the ALT key and hit the W key simultaneously) and a cursor will pop up
on your screen. 

Position the cursor to the start of the text that you want to save (via the
arrow keys) and hit RETURN.  This will anchor the right corner of the text.

Using the arrow keys, move the cursor to the end of the text you want to quote
and hit Q. (for SAVE).  The window holding the text will change back to normal
attributes.

Hit ESC to return to the text of the reply message you were working on (if you
used scrollback to get where you were), position the cursor where you want the
quote, and hit ALT-W, G (for GET). The program will then dump the text you
saved to the screen as if you typed it in.  If, for some reason, it does not
type ALL of the text, simply hit RETURN. 

You may also save the marked text to a file, or to the printer, but hitting F
for File or P for Printer at the end of marking.

This program puts a "> " before starting to write the line of text.  You may
change this character by modifying the enclosed source code.  BECAUSE it adds
the "> ", you should be careful when quoting lines of > 78 characters.  These
will probably cause an ugly message on your local bbs, with the > and 78
characters on one line, and the other 2 characters on the next.

A DEBUG input file is included so that you can modify the "hotkey" which
activates SNIPPER, the prefix characters that SNIPPER inserts for quoting
functions and the default filename for file saves.

This program is based on SNIPPER, which was originally published in PC-MAGAZINE
Kudos go to PC-MAGAZINE for putting this stuff out where we can play with it
and modify good code to do the things we want to do.  If you like it, try to
get a subscription to PC-Magazine if you don't already have one.  I think we
should support the folks who put this stuff out for us to play with.