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  • [Dialog] Save & close draft vs Save & keep draft in the foreground

    From Randy Jones@randolphJones@randyjones.com to news.software.readers on Sat May 3 21:09:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    Given you can be anywhere when composing a message the most common
    situation is it takes as many as six clicks just to save a work in progress
    (so that you don't lose it) and then go back to editing it.
    (while editing)... Action > Save & close draft
    Folders > (scroll) > Drafts > (find message) > (doubleclick it)

    What would be nice is "Save" while continuing to edit the draft.
    The reason is some posts are extremely detailed & "things happen".
    You end up crying because you lost everything you were compiling.

    I'm aware that you can 'pre-plan' a bit to reduce the six steps to
    something less by 'pre-arranging' the folders, but that simply cuts down
    the number of steps to save a draft from six to something less than six.

    Is there any way to just save (in one step!) while editing a draft?
    (without all the pre-planning which you have to manually arrange)
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  • From noreply@noreply@dirge.harmsk.com to news.software.readers on Sun May 4 10:16:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On Sat, 3 May 2025 21:09:53 -0000 (UTC), Randy Jones <randolphJones@randyjones.com> wrote:
    Given you can be anywhere when composing a message the most common
    situation is it takes as many as six clicks just to save a work in progress >(so that you don't lose it) and then go back to editing it.
    (while editing)... Action > Save & close draft
    Folders > (scroll) > Drafts > (find message) > (doubleclick it)
    What would be nice is "Save" while continuing to edit the draft.
    The reason is some posts are extremely detailed & "things happen".
    You end up crying because you lost everything you were compiling.
    I'm aware that you can 'pre-plan' a bit to reduce the six steps to
    something less by 'pre-arranging' the folders, but that simply cuts down
    the number of steps to save a draft from six to something less than six.
    Is there any way to just save (in one step!) while editing a draft?
    (without all the pre-planning which you have to manually arrange)

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    40tude dialog is fine for occasional posting (modifying reply header
    comes in handy) but is inconvenient to "save and close draft" unlike
    other newsreaders, text editors, word processors, etc., which enable
    "save" [ctrl+s] without closing the composition window; afaict there
    is no option or setting anywhere in 40tude dialog for reversing this

    (recommend using another newsreader for routine posting and replying)

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  • From Bernd Rose@b.rose.tmpbox@arcor.de to news.software.readers on Sun May 4 18:42:09 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On Sat, 3rd May 2025 21:09:53 -0000 (UTC), Randy Jones wrote:

    Given you can be anywhere when composing a message the most common
    situation is it takes as many as six clicks just to save a work in progress (so that you don't lose it) and then go back to editing it.
    (while editing)... Action > Save & close draft
    Folders > (scroll) > Drafts > (find message) > (doubleclick it)

    Drafts get saved, whenever the Drafts folder is selected. You can add
    the Drafts folder to any sub-category you create to organize your groups
    and folders. Therefore, selecting the Drafts folder once and afterwards relying on double Alt+Tab isn't too complicated.

    What would be nice is "Save" while continuing to edit the draft.

    Whether an explicit Save function would have been a good idea, is moot
    to discuss, considering the abandonware state...

    Bernd
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