I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Thu Aug 18 18:39:16 EDT 2005


There are webnotes... not sure exactly how those work.

At 05:30 PM 8/18/2005, you wrote:
>How about this:
>
>We take the entire Rev docs and put them in a Wiki (hopefully this
>process can be automated)
>
>Then, when we find a problem or something that needs to be added to the
>docs, whichever one of us has the answer to the problem goes to the wiki
>and modifies the document, or creates a new page, or whatever is needed.
>
>We could probably add quite a few how-to pages, and probably expand a
>number of reference items with further examples as needed.
>
>It would not be viewed as big 'ol humungous project. Instead, it would
>just be natural ongoing process in response to discussions on this list.
>Just like when you guys say 'did you BZ it' in response to newly
>discovered bugs, we would also say 'did you Wiki it' in response to
>newly discovered solutions or needed explanations.
>
>Would this be practical?
>Is there any way to automatically put the docs into a Wiki?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Peter T.
>Evensen
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:24 PM
>To: How to use Revolution
>Subject: RE: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?
>
>Is the continuation character documented someplace?
>
>The current documentation is a great reference.  The videos are good for
>
>instruction, but I think there needs to be some more IDE documentation,
>like this is the code editor, you can switch the handler views using
>this
>menu, the continuation character is \, etc.
>
>At 05:13 PM 8/18/2005, you wrote:
> >I found it very helpful to read the docs cover to cover.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> >[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> >Wieder
> >Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:13 PM
> >To: How to use Revolution
> >Subject: Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?
> >
> >Richard-
> >
> >Thursday, August 18, 2005, 1:01:28 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > > Jon wrote:
> > >> I envy those of you who use Rev all of the time.  For the rest of
>us,
> >it
> > >> continues to be a very frustrating experience.
> >
> > > How many other multi-platform programming language have your
>learned,
> > > and how much less time did they take to master?
> >
> >Sorry, Richard, but I think this is out of line here. I don't really
> >know where I learned about the backslash, but it ain't easy finding
> >out what the line continuation character is unless you ask it here.
> >It's certainly not obvious from searching through the documentation,
> >and if it's in there I couldn't say where it is. I learn a lot by
> >looking at other people's code, but not everyone has the same style of
> >learning.
> >
> >--
> >-Mark Wieder
> >  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> >
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