Wouldn't it be neat...

[me at jerrydaniels.com]

If you use the clipboarddata to alter your scripts, you get undo to work again.

On Aug 22, 2016, 12:53 AM -0500, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>, wrote:
> Here's my original, which does mess up "undo", but it's a start. I use
> Command-Shift-<char> to trigger the actions. Cmd-Shift-space, for
> example, picks up the text under the mouse and puts it into the current
> selection. I use that almost exclusively instead of copy/paste to enter
> variable names without typos. Quotes, brackets, and a few other things
> are covered. In the case of quotes and parentheses where there is no
> selection, it places a paired set of characters and moves the insertion
> point between them.
>
> on commandKeyDown whichKey
> if ("editor field" is not in the name of the target and "script" is
> not in the name of the target) \
> or the shiftkey is not down
> then pass commandKeyDown
> switch whichKey
> case quote
> case "'"
> get the selection
> put quote & it & quote into the selection
> if it = "" then
> put the selectedchunk into tSel
> put word 4 of tSel into word 2 of tSel
> put (word 4 of tSel) - 1 into word 4 of tSel
> select tSel
> end if
> break
> case "v" -- paste only plain text
> put the clipboardData["text"] into the selection
> break
> case "9"
> case "0"
> case "("
> case ")"
> get the selection
> put "(" & it & ")" into the selection
> if it = "" then
> put the selectedchunk into tSel
> put word 4 of tSel into word 2 of tSel
> put (word 4 of tSel) - 1 into word 4 of tSel
> select tSel
> end if
> break
> case "["
> case "]"
> case "{"
> case "}"
> get the selection
> put "[" & it & "]" into the selection
> if it = "" then
> put the selectedchunk into tSel
> put word 4 of tSel into word 2 of tSel
> put (word 4 of tSel) - 1 into word 4 of tSel
> select tSel
> end if
> break
> case " " -- scriptPaint
> put the mousetext into the selection
> break
> default
> pass commandKeyDown
> end switch
> setEditorDirty
> end commandKeyDown
>
> private command setEditorDirty -- make the editor know things changed
> type space
> delete char (word 4 of the selectedchunk) of the target
> end setEditorDirty
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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