what -I- consider a bug in *cabe

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Thanks for the suggestion, John.  Another kind soul privately suggested
(thank you!) saving them all with a specific initial prefix, like
"zverify", "zlock", "zsesscode", etc., so that they're at least all in one
place in the listing of tables, even if they're in the same "file" (fP
file, not normal file).

I can see either method being advantageous, and will likely adopt one or
the other this week.  

I'm thinking that an fltlib/ approach will be probably most beneficial if
I'm using routines between multiple projects.  I'm a fan of throwing fl
or flt on just about everything I generate so I know it's mine and -they-
know it's mine, keepa yer mitza offa ora i breaka your wristsa. :) But also
it would avoid contention if someone else has a "lib" of their own.  How
many people are going to have an fltlib? :) That way as well, as you say,
it's a library, and I can just zip the whole thing up and plop it between
systems.  I can even throw a perl one-liner at it to rename them all to
unix names and tar them up.  So if we do it that way, we can just drag and
drop handy functionality between systems as needed.  I dig that, as it's
the most flexible.

Thanks for the tip you can save out to another fP file's processing.  I'd
forgotten that from ye olden days, although I do call that way all the
time.  I'd never have remembered the saving/loading that way unprompted, so
thanks!

I had used the clipboard approach myself with "temp" or "tmp" (one of the
two) back from '93-95, so I've done that before myself for quickies.  Still
hated it sitting there though, so mixing it with a lib directory is extra
cool.

Don't suppose there's a way to set the default directory for save/load
to something other than the current file and have it "stick" like insert
mode does for the entire session?  That'd save on keystrokes.  Yes, I'm
that lazy. :) It'd make a good env var if it's not already accomodated! :)

Actually, -is- there one for insert mode to stick -between- sessions (well,
at startup)?  Cos I get -really- tired of forgetting to hit insert mode
and starting to overwrite my code, fixing it, coding properly for hours,
but having to exit for whatever reason and coming back only to do the same
thing again.  I just want insert mode on as a default.  Any way that's
achievable?

Thanks much for the hints and tips, folks!

mark->

Simon--er, no...it was John Esak--said:
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