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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Interactive prompts with DME
Message-ID: <8801240851.AA22693@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 88 08:51:21 GMT
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:	`saveold escimm `execute `lc -v -b -r ''
:
:(Yes, I know the quotes aren't closed).  This command will save the file
:prompt me for a file name and then compile it.  The only real problem is
:that I must type the file name and the last closing quote.  This upsets
:my sense of aesthetics :-)  Does anyone know of a way to prompt for 
:just the file name, or (even better) to get at the current file name without
:need to prompt?
:
:Thanks for the help,
:J. Hardie

	Now there's an idea...  This will be possible in the next release
through the use of remote-control, but currently you are stuck.  The only
way to do it now is to have only one argument to a command.

	Another approach you might try is to use the SCANF command to
pick off a command sequence from the text (say, from a comment line in a
certain format) and completely automate the sequence like this:

/*
 * CHARLIE.C
 *
 *
 * COMPILE: lc -v -b -r charlie.c
 *
 */

map cs-c (top first find COMPILE: repeat 8 right scanf %[~]s execute $scanf)

	-go to line 1, column 1, search for the command specifier,
	 move past specifier so text beyond cursor is the command string,
	 scanf the string (%[~]s == take the entire line), execute the
	 string.  Poof.

					-Matt