Seamus, I hope you will take the following as a constructive comment. I've been on the BBedit board for many years even though most of the questions are over my head. (I gave up on regex a long time ago :) I read the board anyway because I enjoy listening in on experts sharing their knowledge, and because this board is so civil, generous, and kind...in its techie, non-sentimental way.
I understand that you are frustrated by the way BBedit handles its "create a link" user interface, and I agree with you about some of that (see below), but when you call responses "inane" and suggest that you are the only one looking at the situation "objectively", it makes it far less likely that anyone will want to risk trying to help you with your next question. That's the case even if you are right in your criticisms. (FWIW, I think you're wrong. See below.) Why spend time trying to help someone if there's a good chance that s/he might respond by the equivalent of name-calling? In terms of your criticism of BBedit's interface: Yes, it'd be helpful for the app to make it easier to do common HTML tasks like creating links. Calling them "links" would be one place to start. But I also understand the designers' preference for consistency; all HTML tags are listed by their tag, not their function. So links become "a". I also think that it would be a convenience to have a field labelled "link text" in the dialogue box. Sam's point makes sense if one assumes that the aim of BBedit's tag dialogs is to ensure that the resulting tag is legit. But more casual users, like you and me, would probably trade that assurance for convenience. The designers of BBedit have made what to me is an understandable decision in this case. You may prefer that they decided the other way, but the designers, and users like Sam and others who have taken their time to help you, are not irrational, non-objective, or writers of inane comments. It's generally unhelpful to assume the worst of everyone else but the best of oneself. On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 10:31:46 PM UTC-4, Seamus de Mora wrote: > > Hey Sam - the first line of your answer is inane. I guess you're trying to > help, but that doesn't change the fact: inane answer. > > On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2:39:43 PM UTC+1, Sam Hathaway wrote: >> >> The BBEdit tag editor is designed to let you edit tag *attributes* not >> tag *contents*. >> >> The problem with editing *contents* through the tag editor is that the >> contents of an <A> tag can include *almost any HTML element*, not just >> text. >> >> So how could the tag editor handle this? It’d have to have a nested >> BBEdit text window, with all markup features included, wouldn’t it? And >> inside that? Where would it end? >> >> Hope this helps. >> -sam >> >> On 3 May 2018, at 21:35, Seamus de Mora wrote: >> >> Wow... All of those values in that dialog box, and nothing for *link text >> <https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp>!* That is *stupefying* >> <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stupefy>! >> >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:00:38 AM UTC+1, Robert wrote: >> >> On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 6:26:35 PM UTC-4, Seamus de Mora wrote: >> >> This is a follow-up to my previous post wherein I've been trying to get >> BBEdit to create a simple hypertext link. >> >> Here's the dialog box as I've completed it: >> >> >> < >> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RPJMeIR8L44/WuuLNq456zI/AAAAAAAAAao/1eWU81CK3nYb48FC-NcR8gaKByY1L6BNACLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-05-03%2Bat%2B9.06.23%2BPM.png >> > >> >> >> And here's the HTML that created: >> >> <a href="https://www.keysight.com/main/techSupport.jspx"; name="name" >> title="title" target="target" id="id" class="class"></a> >> >> >> So: what is the text called that falls between the "><" arrows - the text >> that appears as the hyperlink in an HTML page? Apparently it's not any of >> the choices listed in the dialog... was that part omitted? >> >> It doesn't have an option for that. That is why it puts the cursor there >> when you create it that way. That might be a good feature enhancement >> though. They could call it "value" or something. >> >> -- >> Bob >> >> -- >> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a >> feature request or would like to report a problem, please email >> "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. >> Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BBEdit Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. >> >> -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
