Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

John Esak john at valar.com
Sat Aug 7 00:33:25 PDT 2004


>
> Agreed, and my edit does not let them display like that--it lets you ENTER
> them like that.  My theory is that it should look properly formatted
> according to the conventions we both agree on, but if you enter a dash
> after the area code just as after the prefix and have the area code
> separation come off conventionally, you should be able to enter the entire
> thing using spaces, even after the prefix, and have it come off looking
> conventionally--it converts to a dash.  Reread my original
> edit--you'll see
> that I reverse which string literal is deleted and which is substituted,
> depending on which breakpoint in the phone number you're at.  It works as
> you would expect.
>
> mark->

Ah, this time I understood you. Yes, we agree, and your edit is a little
better than the default filePro edit for it. I think both Ken's addition and
yours should be put into the default filePro global table.

How about if we get 5 "agrees", I put it on the wishlist?

John



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