Secrets of the filter command?

[J. Landman Gay]

Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Yeah, we could type "ss" into the msg box and a dialog would appear 
> asking us which stacks we wanted to search (any one along with its 
> "using" stacks) along with the word or phase we wanted to locate. Then 
> it would "snake" through each of the stacks into every script in them, 
> locating this phrase and allowing changes to be made. A pretty wonderful 
> routine. It was probably an external command. If there is any chance 
> that the Rev Team might consider implementing something like this, I'll 
> search my old HC files to discover what it was. I kind of figured that 
> Rev already had some such thing and I just haven't found it yet.

The "ss" stood for "searchScripts" and it was a HyperTalk handler placed 
in the Home stack. Many of us have written our own. It's just xtalk. 
With a little tweaking, the one in the original HC Home stack works.

> 
> Joe Wilkins
> 
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> 
>> Joe-
>>
>> Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 4:32:03 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Mark is the filter command anything at all like the "snake" command
>>
>> Ummm... "snake"?
>>
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
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