Re: keyboard macro question

[Lars Enderin]

David Combs wrote:
> You're writing for a web-browser?

Thunderbird is a mail and news client, not a browser, although it can 
show HTML-formatted messages.

> I don't use a web-browser for newsgroups -- I use "trn4".

You should upgrade, or accept being left behind,

> And with that, your unicode orwhatever looks pretty bad,
> unreadable in some cases.

Unicode is not necessary in Usenet posts, I'll give you that, but I hope 
that you won't insist on 7-bit us-ascii text. That is too US-parochial. 
I use ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) because I need it for my Swedish alphabet 
 (a-z plus åäö, mostly), but Thunderbird is capable of showing Unicode 
if necessary. Most modern Linuxes, e g Ubuntu, use UTF-8 by default, by 
the way.

> How about  writing for just  plain old ascii terminals, eg
> adm3a or vt-100 --  isn't that the working assumption for
> newsgroup text?

That is too limiting.