Re: [XBoard-devel] xboard feature request

[Alan Bennett]

Yes that's fine. I don't need auto-display, but maybe someone else would want 
that. If I can click in the menu to get it, that's good enough for me.

My use case is this: I extract initial fen from endgame books. Many endgame 
books in one epd file, sorted by material balance, with custom opcodes. Then I 
hold down Alt-Shift-Right until the (approximate) endgame of interest appears. 
At this point I want to know the source and the author evaluation. Right now I 
have to look at the index in the xboard title bar and then open the epd in a 
text editor and goto the line number.

Anything that saves me having to open the epd in another application would be a 
big help.

-- 
Alan

> On Dec 8, 2016, at 3:11 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Would it be an idea to group this with the option Auto-diplay Tags? That
> when that option is on, loading a game results in popup of the Edit Tags
> window with the PGN tags in it, and loading an EPD (as opposed to a plain
> FEN) would pop up that same dialog with the EPD in it?
> 
> Op Wo, 7 december, 2016 8:54 pm schreef Alan Bennett:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to display the epd-line in xboard. For example in the View
>> menu, next to Tags,Comments could be Position (or whatever label). Then
>> just show the _entire_ string from the current index line. I don't need
>> any editing, but I need to see the opcodes. Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Alan
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