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From: jakob@nada.kth.se (Jakob Cederlund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Wanted: Code for simple text interface
Message-ID: <1360@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 1 Aug 89 10:40:35 GMT
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Reply-To: jakob@nada.kth.se (Jakob Cederlund)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In my opinion you should do it just like the MPW Shell does it:
Return key does nothing except splitting the text line.
      ___
Enter  ^  key executes the selection. If nothing is selected it
executes the line with the caret on. If several lines are selected,
they are executed in order.

Using this method you do not have need for any special treatment of
rubout, users going back in the text etc.

BTW MPW Shell uses a not too bad script language, take a look at
it.

/Jakob Cederlund       jakob@nada.kth.se
Computer Science Dept. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden