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From: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting a mark in ThinkC's editor???
Summary: Not yet, but...
Message-ID: <14455@reed.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 18:36:37 GMT
References: <2381@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Reply-To: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <2381@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> monching@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Patrick WONG) writes:
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>Is there a way to work on some place in the Think C editor, scroll to the
>the top change a couple things and return to the previous place easily.
>Currently, I just guesstimate the position in the scroll bar and/or use
>multiple search commands.

There is an INIT called PopUpFuncs which lets you scroll, via a
title-bar-click pop-up menu, to any function in the file, but that's not
quite what you want.

I have written an INIT called Kiss which adds some keyboard commands to
Think's editor, like page-up and forward-delete, and Mark will probably be
in the next version.  If anyone would like a beta copy, let me know.

>... it would be great if the editor could have plug modules where we could
>add what ever feature we want.  For example, if I wanted the editor to be
>like jove or EMACS I would plug in the jove module.  And like magic I would
>have an instant jove editor inside think c.  

A project I'd like to write, but won't have time for until at least June, is
to extend Kiss to be a full-fledged extensible extender, allowing others to
write plug-in CODE modules which would get a chance to act on each event.
Or Symantec could provide the same sort of hooks for macros in the next
version of Think C... are you listening, Rich?

>patrick wong                   | McGill University           |  \\//        
>monching@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca   | School of Computer Science  |   ||
>                               | Montreal, Quebec            |   --

		"I had no idea so many people in the United States and
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		 is -- whatever turns you on is OK so long as there is mutual
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			-- Ann Landers (!), Nov.5,1989


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Alex Chaffee
chaffee@reed.UUCP
Reed College, Portland OR 97202
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