[mythtv-users] How do I insert a linefeed in a Custom Record Rule?

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Tue Apr 15 14:58:39 UTC 2014


On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:21:37 -0500, you wrote:

>I have had enough of living with rules all on one line and completely
>invisible unless I scroll to the left and have it all magically appear
>off the left side of the screen.  Yes, this may have been fixed since
>my V0.23 system got set up, but I'm having trouble getting upgraded to
>V0.25 over the past six weeks, so I want to fix this _now_. ;-)
>
>Some of the rules I made in the past magically (meaning I have no clue
>how I did it) include line breaks between clauses that had to have
>come from separate sample clauses.  I have tried to do this again and
>had no luck.  I tried turning on and off the line-edit keyboard option
>(I have a keyboard on the BE), and I tried finding a way to paste text
>of any kind into the rule definition text box, but nothing seems to
>work.
>
>Can anyone tell me:
>A) Has this been fixed in a future (say V0.25+) release?
>B) There _is_ a way to consistently do this in V0.23, and if so, what
>the method is?
>
>Thanks _very_ much for helping me with this irritating little issue.

I am using 0.27, and I put line breaks into the recording descriptions
when I add comments to them.  The way I do that is to use Ctrl-Enter.
That may work for you also.


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