Personality

people have been asking for a better offline editor for years. No one really had the time to make one (not someone with the skills to do so).Oh well. That's why Spike puts numbers at the end of some responses I really should fix that someday.

Use word pad not note pad. I have never had a issue there.

Actually I used to use Word and save it as a txt file. If we ever get rid of Guest 153, I may try Open Office to make memory changes and major additions.

I sure would love to have the quest chats the way they were, I am tired of cleaning up memories all the time.

I use EditPad Pro.

Try Notepad++ (if you're using Windows)--it's free and open-source.

The line breaks in the PF exports are saved in Unix format (which Notepad++ can read and write, but plain Notepad doesn't see properly).

Oh! THAT's the problem! I knew there was something, an extra character or some bit of extra code sliding in there where it doesn't belong. Thank you all, Notepad++ will probably be what I get (when I can get it) Though Editpad is rather nice.

ZZrdvark, TY! "Free and open source" are words that make me smile. You are my new best friend. Ok, maybe not, but I do like your comments.

Prof can you please put all other fourms back to zero for me, this is the only one I can "see"

use a different text editor? Anyone?

I swear by textpad (www.textpad.com) - it's unlimited shareware, and simply the best text editor out there IMO. Easy to use for beginners, and powerful enough for the most demanding user.
It's got all the options for sorting lines, changing cases, setting up macros, regex searching, encoding different character sets, block selection, bookmarking lines, etc. you could possibly want.

And it happily opens massive files that notepad crashes on

How many responses does everybody use per keyphrase?

I use 3 most of the time--often with a parenthesized group or two--e.g.:
(i'd have to say that|yeah,) (key1) really (bothers|annoys) me..

I was asking since I was looking at some of the keynomes from BJ's site:

Watzer: ~600 Keyphrases, 2114 Current Development
Pete Puma: ~3200 Keyphrases, 2725 Development
Asigrt 1122 Mode: ~900 Keyphrases, 1491 Development

compared to:

horsez4ever: ~180 Keyphrases, 987 Development

Which equals a ratio of keyphrases:development of ~1:5 instead of ~1:2 (on average). I know they've been updated since, but that would only mean the current number of keyphrases would be even higher.

I guess it varies - I try to average 4-6 responses for general conversational KPs, but a lot of BJ's factual data (square roots, historical stuff etc.) and games (Tic Tac Toe, Zany Adventure, etc.) may only have 1 or 2. Some of his religious topics, where I've set him up to deliver a bible verse, can have up to the full 41 when there are that many relevant verses available.

But you can't reliably calculate the responses per keyphrase from the ratio of keyphrases:development, since the number of seeks used by botmasters varies wildly, and also contributes to development (and seeks aren't shown in a keynome, which only lists the first layer of the complexity.)