Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

[Jon]

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:
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>Here is a line with no indent
>    Here is a line with an indent
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>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.)
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>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.
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>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:
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>Here is a line with no indentHere is a line with an indent
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>The cursor is positioned between the 2 sentences. Then, I have to type ENTER
>to separate the lines:
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>Here is a line with no indent
>Here is a line with an indent (that has now had its indent removed)
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>How does such eccentric behaviour balance with the advantages of
>auto-formatting?
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>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!
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