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

[Jon]

Great. You figured out how to make the Help system work successfully.  
Try Filtering the Dictionary and the Topics with"continue".  I get 
NOTHING here.

Working with Rev should not be a game: it should be easy to locate this 
information.   I'm happy that you were able to find the information.  I 
still feel that the fact that I was unable to find it is NOT because I 
was lazy, but because the IDE continues to be half-baked.

Jon


Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> At 3:20 PM -0400 8/18/2005, Jon wrote:
>
>> I'm sure the answer to this question (how do you continue a line in 
>> Rev) is simple.  Where could I have found the answer to this simple 
>> question in the documentation?  I looked for "continue": no joy. 
>> "line": no joy.  I looked at the Scripting discussion, and I know 
>> know all about comments, but nothing about continuing lines onto the 
>> next line.
>
>
>
> "How to break a line in a script:
> If a line of code is too long to be easily displayed in the script 
> editor, it is convenient to break it into more than one line for 
> display, while still having Transcript treat it as a single line.
>
> You use the \ character to break a script line for display, as in the 
> following example:
>
>   set the thumbSize of scrollbar 1 to \
>      (the height of group 1/the formattedHeight of group 1)
>
> When the above split line is executed, it's treated as a single line 
> of code."
>
>
>
> The entry for "\" is also the first item returned when you search the 
> dictionary for "continue".
>
>
>
> Writing documentation starts to seem kind of pointless when a large 
> part of its target audience presents convincing proof, often, that 
> much of that audience doesn't bother to read it.
>
> (Admittedly, this is one of the places where an index would be really 
> useful, since you can set up an index to catch synonyms. On the other 
> hand, a search would have succeeded here. Will someone who won't 
> search use an index? Maybe, maybe not.)