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From: jgh2@cisunx.UUCP (John G. Hardie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Interactive prompts with DME
Message-ID: <6391@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 00:55:26 GMT
Reply-To: jgh2@cisunx.UUCP (John G. Hardie)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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Hi folks,

I have been playing around with Matt's DME recently (VERY NICE!) and have
been trying to complete some menu items.  I am having some difficulty
getting the editor to prompt me for information needed to complete a command.
For example, I am trying to set up a 'compile' command which will run my
C compiler on the current file.  At the moment the command is defined as 
follows:

	`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




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