Livecode Dictionary

[Geoff Canyon]

1. Not everyone (very few people?) understand how git/GitHub works.
2. Even if you have a reasonable grasp of how to use git it's not obvious
how to contribute to the dictionary using git. I've maintained Navigator in
git/GitHub for about a year, and I'm sure I don't know the detailed steps
-- just the general sense of "clone the repository, make changes to the
dictionary, do a pull request." I just gave this a shot (pull request
<https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6856>) for the thinly-documented
merge function. We'll see if I did it right.

As an aside, I just checked, and the dictionary is now just two widgets? It
seems counterproductive and unnecessary to convert the dictionary to
widgets. There's no special functionality needed(?). And the dictionary
functionality is now expressly beyond the ability of a large portion of the
community to contribute to.

gc

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 8:55 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> We have an even better option now.  Contributions to the actual dictionary
> can be submitted via GitHub.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Jan 19, 2019, 9:48 AM -0600, Richmond via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > Some of those user entries were extremely useful.
> >
> > It would be good if user entries could be restored to the dictionary
> > once again.
> >
> > Richmond.
> >
> > On 19.01.19 9:49, Simon Knight via use-livecode wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have just read about two “issues” and both would be resolved or at
> least helped with a more detailed dictionary entry. Now in the dim distant
> past the RunRev dictionary use to allow humble users to add comments and
> examples which I for one found useful. Does anyone know why this useful
> feature was removed? Security ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Simon Knight
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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