Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

[John Esak]

> > How about if we get 5 "agrees", I put it on the wishlist?
> >
> > John
> Jphn,
>
> I'll agree!!!
>
> However, this shouldn't have to be  WISHLIST ITEM.
>
> Ken & Mark already did the work and it most likely just added to
> global edit
> file to everyone's benefit.
>



Agreed... It should have always been that 201-337-8009 got converted to
(201) 337-8009, and always a pain that it didn't. Such a simple little
addition fixes it and hurts nothing. Mark's addition of 201 337 8009 also
working is just another bit of frosting on the cake... Why not have the edit
be that much more robust?  It only takes those few extra characters. I think
it should go directly into the phone edit of the global table... especially
because it doesn't affect/effect any workings of anyone's existing code. Put
it in!


 It might be interesting to query the "community" for interesting
> custom edits.
> Maybe even accumulated and published as a "white paper" or in PDF format
> available for download from either the chat room or fptech's web site.
>
Agreed, we zapped through a big edit job for somebody last week. I don't
remember exactly what it did... but I remember the guy was blown away when
he found he could add the "fill" character of his choice just by using the
\.  It completely changed the way he was trying to write the edit he needed.
I was only listening with one ear, while Nancy (I think) (or maybe it was
Jim helped this guy after I put in the fill thing.  It didn't seem like his
edit would be very valuable to anyone else. But you are right some of us
have written edits that would be very generic. I wrote many a kludgy edit
until I essentially moved almost everything to processing. The good ones
were eventually done better by the filePro distribs... I had an edit that
put parens around the negaive numbers in the NEX Accounting Group (yes NAG
:-) until in 4.0, I think a better one came out... along about the same time
a paranegative one appeared also... I don't use them too much anymore, but
edits are so valuable. The 200 total limit of global/local is actually
pretty limiting.

John Esak