On 8 Aug 2011, at 01:07, edac2 wrote:

> But as a for instance, I selected a word that I
> wanted to add a hyperlink to by pressing command-option-a. In BBEdit
> 9.6, a beautiful modal dialog box opens up. The first field is for
> Href, very logically. There are pulldowns for Recent URLs, Current
> Folder and Scheme, and fields for ID/Name, Title and Target. The non-
> modal equivalent in BBEdit 10 has one field with a pulldown for
> "accesskey, class, contentedible, contextmenu and dir".

Here's how I do it in BBEdit 10:

1) select word
2) Command+Ctrl+A to bring up floating "anchor tag" editor.
3) type 'h' to get 'href' in the first drop down
4) press Tab
5) type the URL I wish to link to
6) press Tab
7) type 'i' to get 'id'
8) press Tab
9) type in the name/identifier for this anchor
10) press Tab
11) type 't' to get 'tab order'
12) … etc

I can still interact with background windows (to copy a URL for example).

This works fine for me, and behaves much better than floating modal dialog 
boxes which stop me editing any other document.

I can see that it would make more sense for anchor tags to have "href" as the 
first element by default, but what if you weren't making a link and you wanted 
a "name" instead? I used anchor tags for targets more often than I used them 
for hrefs.

Alex

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