How many people use Single-Handler Mode in Script Editor?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Sep 2 12:51:02 EDT 2003


I never do, but -

Some time ago I made a MivaScript editor to help me make some modifications
to the Miva Merchant XML driving my e-commerce site (if any of you use Miva
Merchant and need to modify mmui.mv just me an email and I'll send you the
stack).

Because Miva's mmui.mv script is very long I needed a way to traverse it
easily.  What I came up with was not particularly atom-splitting, yet has
proven quite a convenience:

Just to the left of the main editing field is a narrow list field listing
all the handlers handlers in the file.  Clicking on any handler in that list
scrolls the editing field to show that handler.  Conversely, scrolling the
main editing field changes the hilitedline in the handler list to select the
topmost handler in view in the editing field at that time.

For myself, this approach gives me the convenience of something like a
single-handler view, but without the cognitive dissonance reported by many
here that comes when you remove a handler from its context.

-- 
 Richard Gaskin 
 Fourth World Media Corporation
 Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site
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