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#Wishlist for TxEd Plus
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Cheath,
Speaking of wish lists, would it be possible to add a Macro to TxEd Plus
that could be tied in to all keys (after or before TxEd itself processed
them)? What I'm thinking about is the capability to add inteligent formatting
to the text as it's being entered, that will be sensitive to certain keys. I
want to do the coding/analysis in a library function (cause the speed of an
interpreted macro would be intolerable here), but I need the macro hook.
What do you think?
Thanks…Bob
Hmm … interesting idea. I guess I could add something like the
auto-timeout callout, though I wonder if the response-time for an AREX macro
will feel fast enough to keep up with speedy typists on a per-character
basis. This sounds like ideally there would be a library-type callout with
each character, and if it is a formatting character you could do whatever you
want with it, or for 'normal' stuff you'd just pass it through. But that
wouldn't be practical unless you're a pretty seasoned developer type. I'll
see what happens when calling a REXX macro with each character; probably the
callout would be before inserting the char, and you would set a return code
to NULL to just pass the char through, or 1 if you've eaten the char, or
something like that. Thanks-
…cheath
Hmm … interesting idea. I guess I could add something like the
auto-timeout callout, though I wonder if the response-time for an AREX macro
will feel fast enough to keep up with speedy typists on a per-character
basis. This sounds like ideally there would be a library-type callout with
each character, and if it is a formatting character you could do whatever you
want with it, or for 'normal' stuff you'd just pass it through. But that
wouldn't be practical unless you're a pretty seasoned developer type. I'll
see what happens when calling a REXX macro with each character; probably the
callout would be before inserting the char, and you would set a return code
to NULL to just pass the char through, or 1 if you've eaten the char, or
something like that. Thanks-
…cheath