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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Want find next button
Message-ID: <8764@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 21 Oct 89 01:13:17 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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Barry Chern's idea of refinding successive times and keeping track of
how many makes sense -- I also received an e-mail message discussing a
variant on this technique.  However, given the new features added to
HyperTalk in 1.2.1, and documented in the Release Notes stack that came
with it, it can be even easier.  After any find, simply select the
found text.  The next find command will start looking after the
selection.  This is how most text editors on the Mac work, and it
presents an intuitively obvious interface.  The command to do so is
just "select the findChunk".

Thanks to those on the net who told me to read the Release Notes stack,
which I had only been dimly aware existed, and which I assumed was
simply documentation of bug fixes.  In fact, it is an indispensable
addition to the on-line documentation.  I agree with the person who
wrote me and said that it was awfully slack that they hadn't updated
the on-line manual with the new features.  It would have saved me days
of head-scratching about the Find command if I'd known.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not written one new truth: Now hear
  another: he has written all the old falshoods.
 And now hear the reason.  He conversed with Angels who are all religious, &
  conversed not with Devils who all hate religion..."
    - Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"