Re: Tutorial: Notepad++ shortcuts.xml macro converts unicode to the 95-keyboard ASCII characters

Arlen,

> Clearly I've invested in explaining to others how the substitution works.

You did.  To bad that your explanation started on a quicksand of
assumptions, making it rather worthless.

My mentioning of what those macro line actually do ?  That was my attempt to
softly nudge you to veryfy what you guessed/assumed.    The rest was
provided for the same reason.

Writing words down isn't that hard.  Making sure that what you write is
correct and makes sense to your audience is whats time-consuming.

> I've likewise invested the energy into providing a working conversion
> file.

To me it looks as if you just copy-and-pasted npp's macro file into your
post.  Not something that I would regard as "invested the energy".

> If you think the work is shoddy,

I do.  Very much so.   And I have been saying the same for years.

> point to any one of your thousands of helpful tutorials on the net and
> I'll take a look at them for you.

And when I show you my work and you - undoubtebly, as thats obviously your
target - find something that you can claim, true or not, is shoddy than
suddenly your own work becomes less so ?

I'm sorry kid, but that is not how it works.  :-)

Besides that, I don't need to be a mechanic to be able to notice and tell an 
actual mechanic that a car is missing wheel bolts.  If that mechanic than 
tries to tell me that I'm not able to tell him that because I'm not a 
mechanic I will not ever think of letting him touch my car, and will warn my 
family and friends to do the same.

> What would be particularly useful to the newsgroup as a whole would be
> your method of converting any characters to keyboard characters on
> Windows.

No, it wouldn't.

As already explained - but as so often ignored by you - your target audience
is at best a (very) small subset of this newsgroup.

As for me providing you with methods than your npp macro one ?  Why should I
provide you with something you can *easily* find out yourself with a bit of
googeling ?

Why is it always /us/ who have to provide you with the information /you/
want/need - nonwithstanding how easily its to google ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser