[ANN] tRev Feature Friday Video is up!

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Sep 18 14:39:36 EDT 2009


Jerry Daniels wrote:

> Thanks, Richard. I'll stick with what we have for a while. See how it  
> works and if people really use it.

I'm sure they will.  It's only been in my editor for less than a week 
and it's been very helpful.

My question wasn't about whether to keep it (of course you should), but 
merely whether you were using Cmd-) for anything in tRev.

--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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> Jerry Daniels
> Watch tRev - The Movie
> http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie
> 
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Jerry Daniels wrote:
>>> Three new features:
>>> - Auto-complete within property (Raptor) handlers!
>>> - Auto-complete custom properties within in any handler!
>>> - Select Structure lets you find the beginning & end of any structure
>>> Shortcut for Select Structure is command+(
>>
>> Congrats on rolling this into your editor.
>>
>> Glad to see you were able to overcome the performance issue you were  
>> initially concerned about.  The final result seems to run as fast as  
>> the script I posted here Tuesday.  Rev's speed makes so many things  
>> possible. :)  Good work.
>>
>> On the keyboard shortcut, do you currently use Cmd-) for anything?
>>
>> When I was adding this to ROSE Tuesday morning I ran the idea by Ken  
>> who also uses that editor, and he was concerned about selecting the  
>> text making it too easy to accidentally delete it.  Sure, there's  
>> Undo, but he suggested we implement two different variants of Select  
>> Structure, one which does the selection like BBEdit does, and one  
>> which merely shows the structure visually without altering the  
>> selection.
>>
>> So I've built mine with both, one using an underlying graphic to  
>> show the structure, as well as the simpler version which just  
>> selects the text.
>>
>> If you're using Cmd-( for Select Structure, I would be inclined to  
>> use Cmd-) for Show Structure, unless it conflicts with other  
>> keyboard shortcuts folks might be accustomed to.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World
>> Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
>> Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com





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