concatenating with the ampersand

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Kay, That's encouraging. Maybe a little research will help me know  
what I'm trying to do. (smile)

Joe Wilkins

On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On 3/12/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kay, Jim, etc.,
>>
>> Would something like the following work?
>>
>> put merge("\
>> [[the short name of the target]]_\
>> [[word 1 of the clickline]]\
>> ")\ --end merge
>> into gStartHere --The destination of the string
>
>
> Looks good to me:-)
>
> It would also be conducive to a form whereby if one typed the phrase
>> "merge 3", the script editor could replace it with a skeleton
>> something like:
>>
>> put merge("\
>> [[ ]]\
>> [[ ]]\
>> [[ ]]\
>> ")\
>> into    --The destination of the string
>>
>> Which can easily be completed. Does this make sense? Since I have yet
>> to look at the documentation on "merge", this may be foolish.
>
>
> Also looks like a sensible way to go. Of course you're unlikely to  
> see your
> Script Editor enhancement in the near future so you're probably  
> just going
> to have to create your own sheet of skeletons that you can copy and  
> paste.
> As agreed, those double square brackets do throw you, but like Rev  
> itself,
> once you've used them a bit it becomes very easy.