Well said, Bob! Jon
Bob Warren wrote:
I can sum up a little on what I object to in the script editor by saying that I expect an editor to do what I want it to do, not what IT wants ME to do. Automatic formatting may well be an advantage in a number of respects, but at what cost? What's the good of it if it makes the most simple operations twice as difficult as they would be otherwise? Here is a very simple example of what I am talking about: Here is a line with no indent Here is a line with an indent How do I remove the indent in the 2nd line? In VB, all I have to do is position the cursor before the indented "H" of the 2nd line and then hit BACKSPACE. Alternatively, I can position the cursor at the very beginning of the line before the indent and then hit DELETE repeatedly to remove the 4 blank characters constituting the indent. I would choose the first option, of course. (The advantage of being able to remove single blanks rather chunks of 4 is that I can create indents of only 1 or 2 characters if I want. As I explained previously, if I create a new line above or below a given line, the indentation of the new lines matches that of the original, even when the size of the indentation is non-standard.) In Word, there is no possibility of positioning the cursor at the beginning of the line before the indent. Just like Rev, it gets positioned immediately before the "H". However, if I type BACKSPACE, Word simply removes the indent. But what do I have to do in Revolution? First of all, I find that wherever I try to position the cursor on the LHS of the 2nd line, it ends up positioned after the indent, immediately before the "H". Then I hit BACKSPACE which gives the following result: Here is a line with no indentHere is a line with an indent The cursor is positioned between the 2 sentences. Then, I have to type ENTER to separate the lines: Here is a line with no indent Here is a line with an indent (that has now had its indent removed) How does such eccentric behaviour balance with the advantages of auto-formatting? Summing up on the question of bugs, I suggested that the Rev editor should be simplified merely because whoever programmed it seemed to be biting off more than he could chew, evidenced by the bugs and confusions that still remain in the editor after years of use. If the author is NOT biting off more than he can chew, or if the current Rev team responsible for it are not biting off more than they can chew, then I suggest they PROVE ME WRONG, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER! _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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