Rev 2.7 Editor & stability problems

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Sun Feb 26 22:51:27 EST 2006


Just tried this in Win XP in the regular script editor and I get:

on doSomething <-- placed cursor here and hit Enter

   beep
end doSomething

with no extra end statement.....

Tom

On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> FYI, not that it'll be much consolation, but Constellation does  
> this, too. It does the same thing when you try to insert a line  
> immediately after a handlers header:
>
> on doSomething
>   beep
> end doSomething
>
> then place the cursor at the end of 'on doSomething', hit return  
> and you have
>
> on doSomething
>
> end doSomething
>   beep
> end doSomething
>
> Even less consolation will be the fact that neither of these things  
> happen in the Rev script editor on mac OS X.
>
> Don't let me put you off Constellation, though. It's so good in so  
> many other ways.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> However, the Rev script editor doesn't on mac OS X...
> On 27 Feb 2006, at 02:12, Gordon Webster wrote:
>
>> If you have a script like this
>>
>> repeat with x = 1 to 10
>>  repeat with y = 1 to 20
>>    ... do something
>>   end repeat
>> end repeat
>>
>> and you try to insert a line between the 2 'repeat' statements,  
>> the editor tries to insert new 'end repeat' statements and blank  
>> lines and it all gets horribly messy. Yes I could use  
>> Constellation, or maybe there's an option to switch off the  
>> autocomplete feature on the loops, but frankly I would consider  
>> this a bug. One of the crashes I experienced was actually while I  
>> was trying to clean up after the editor had messed up my code.
>
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