Set Marker --?

[J. Landman Gay]

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> In the MC IDE Script Editor's Edit menu there's an item named "Set 
>>> Marker".  I don't see any code in that menu to support it.
>>>
>>> What does it do, and how does it do it?
>>>
>>
>> There isn't any code. I had suggested it to Scott when we were 
>> discussing the revised script editor, but he never implemented it. I 
>> was always surprised to see it was in the menus, but I think he forgot 
>> about it.
>>
>> It is supposed to set a line of commented script that you can jump to 
>> -- something like the Rev "set bookmark" feature, but more similar to 
>> the (I believe superior) way HyperCard used to do it. The commented 
>> string always starts with a defined word, and the menu item would just 
>> do a line search for a comment marker + the defined keyword, then 
>> scroll the script to that point.
> 
> If you want to complete that feature I think it'd be swell.  Otherwise, 
> should we just remove that menu item?
> 

I'm not going to be able to look at it for a while, though if I ever get 
some time it probably wouldn't be too tough to implement. For now, go 
ahead and remove it I suppose. If I ever get around to doing it, we can 
put it back in.

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