Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
- Subject: Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
- From: Glenn Andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:48:57 -0600
At 3:00 PM -0700 3/9/04, Mel Walker wrote:
On Mar 9, 2004, at 2:10 PM, email@hidden wrote:
there are other situations. For example, you might keep your own data
attached to that that you can detect when you're using a selection
containing that information (I've done something similar, in that text
was attached to ranges of text in the selection as additional
information.
Can you provide a "such as" for this? I'm wracking my brain trying
to think of what extra info might be attached.
One could create an arbitrary "marker" on a chunk of text (which can
then be navigated with a popup menu). Those markers would stay, then
with the text as it is edited.
One can store information for a debugger such as a breakpoint (and
that way, if the code is edited, the breakpoint is moved
automatically and kept with the source - delete that chunk of source,
and it's gone).
One could create a "template" of some text with areas to be replaced
(think like the something that shows the parameter list for a
function call), and then provides a command sequence to "go to next
template field" (which then finds the next chunk of text with the
template attribute).
(I've actually done all of these, so these are more than just hypothetical).
--
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
mondo blobbo, Cythera, Theldrow, oh my!
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
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