Howta edit

With the bottom of the Edit-Post window jumpin' up and down allatime there must be somebody else among our 100,000 users who has experienced my frustration. So I suggest the following method of editing: Starting with the OP, that is the colorful original posting you want everyone else to read, first look for the initial typo. When you find it, hit EDIT

NOW you hafta find your typo again. To do so, do alt-F, then type the first two or three letters of the word, whereupon, the screen jumpin' bigger if needed,, they'll highlight. NOTE: You can't locate your error by searching for a typo inside the word. You hafta start the word at the beginninbg

For example, to find 'beginnibg' as above, you can't enter 'bg,''cause the search routine is too stupid to find the sequence inside a word. Once having found the typo, however, you now make your correction. But here's where things differ from the usu: Instead of looking for your next typo in the Edit-Post window, go down and hit 'Update,' which will get you back into the OP

However, once you've done it a coupl'v times, you might now get a 'You can't edit this post now' message. This is because the Software Geniuses are not only stupid but mean. They don't want you to edit more than once or twice

Still, their incredible incompetence can be dealt with: Quickly, before the Logic has had a chance to think, go up there to the upper left and hit the left arrowhead: Surprise !! you're back in the editing window ! whereupon you can continue....


The danger of course, is that someone might reply before you're done editing. By the sheerest coincidence, that has happened at this very moment, our good friend Stur kindly intervening [below] to explain another method not requiring you to return to the OP. Of course there are other methods, all however requiring additional keystrokes. So if you'll try my method I'm sure you'
l like it better


Now, some respondents, the TAATANE especially, get really mad when you change your msg after his comment. What yo hafta do, is simply adopt the attitude that all the TAT can go to hell in a handbasket. No, not you Stur

Finally, if your message is very long and involved, as this one is, some sort of [perfectly understandable] Software Thinker [there are one or two smart ones, tho The Industry isd tryin' to get rid of 'em] has arranged to make further corrextioms of this sort impossible

[Oh, Software Demons: nI'm hopin', in maybe 12-18 more years from now, you'll have begun recognizing most of the most common typos, as "'nI'm," 'isd' and 'corrextioms' above. But first yo'll hafta hire Speller Crews with higher IQ's, and they'll hafta be able to touch type]