Topic: Enroute: Spell check the Clipboard (1 of 3), Read 13 times, 1 File Attachment
Conf: VEDIT User Applications
From: Scott Lambert
Date: Friday, July 09, 2010 06:02 PM

Enroute.vdm is an add-on to Scribe v4.0. It's main purpose is to give an idea of the flexibility of Scribe v4.0

Put enroute.vdm in your user-mac folder.

What it does is spell checks the contents of the windows clipboard. It inserts the clipboard into a buffer, highlights it as a block, call_file Scribe, which starts in automode because block is set, spell checks the block, enroute.vdm then copies contents back to clipboard, and quits Vedit.

So, you setup a shortcut on your Windows Desktop to Vedit using the -x option to auto-execute enroute.vdm

Why would you need this macro?

You need tech support from a big software company, their website has one of those e-mail forms instead of an email link, you type in your support request. Now you already appear to them to be clueless for needing support for what their ads say is "an ultra easy to use..." product, you don't want to confirm that impression by having spelling errors in your support request. So, you cut your request to the clipboard, call enroute.vdm via your desktop icon, and then paste it back in.

Scott

 
ENROUTE.VDM (1KB)

 


Topic: Enroute: Spell check the Clipboard (2 of 3), Read 11 times
Conf: VEDIT User Applications
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Friday, July 09, 2010 07:31 PM

On 7/9/2010 6:02:51 PM, Scott Lambert wrote:
>Why would you need this macro?
>
>You need tech support from a
>big software company, their
>website has one of those
>e-mail forms instead of an
>email link, you type in your
>support request. Now you
>already appear to them to be
>clueless for needing support
>for what their ads say is "an
>ultra easy to use..." product,
>you don't want to confirm that
>impression by having spelling
>errors in your support
>request. So, you cut your
>request to the clipboard, call
>enroute.vdm via your desktop
>icon, and then paste it back
>in.

Scott,
I don't want to knock your macro (I used to do this once, and still routinely copy browser to/from vedit), but it is now much easier to use the inbuilt spell check in Firefox.

 


Topic: Enroute: Spell check the Clipboard (3 of 3), Read 12 times
Conf: VEDIT User Applications
From: Scott Lambert
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010 08:42 AM


Hi Ian,

I did not know Firefox had that feature, I don't use firefox. Thank you for letting me know. Scott

On 7/9/2010 7:31:39 PM, Ian Binnie wrote:
>Scott,
>I don't want to knock your macro (I used
>to do this once, and still routinely
>copy browser to/from vedit), but it is
>now much easier to use the inbuilt spell
>check in Firefox.
>
>
>