World: r3wp

I think the major annoyance is that it can't be undone....

Volker, aha not your fault !  Don't agree about copying the current 
line. It may look handy, but I still think if you want to copy the 
line, you should select the line first.   

Henrik, you mean undo as in the system clipboard should be able to 
go back to an older state ?

Or just that, since the system clipboard currently has no history, 
copying all text overwrites the clipboard too easily ?

anton, I just meant a plain undo in the editor to avoid destroying 
your text file, by accidental pasting.

I submitted a new ticket.   What are some of the other annoyances 
/ grievances people have with editor? or requested features?  I would 
like to join Henrik in fixing some of them.

it might not be a bug in the editor, but try to load a large file, 
and select text with the mouse. you can't push the text scrolling 
down, if you go beyond the upper or lower window edge

scrollling down or up

I think one of the French (Dide ?) made an AREA style with that functionality.

a simple line counter would be nice too

Didier Cadieu did make a nice area style.  It's available on the 
rebol.org site.  A year ago, I made some modifications to an earlier 
version of it, but I don't remember what I changed

Do you think editor should always start up with the last open file 
 (i.e. hit ctrl-E on desktop, open a file, close the editor, then 
hit ctrl-E again)

I would lean towards having it start blank each time

I don't think that behaviour should change...

Why do you think so?   My natural reaction is to expect something 
blank, or at least not have to close a file that I don't want open. 
  While you don't "close" a document in editor, I have to sit and 
think, "is this something that I want to be open right now or not?" 
   I find it disruptive from a UI standpoint

well, I always start the editor from the console, where I can type 
in a file name, a string, NONE or something else. that way I get 
always what I expect. :-)

I am strictly speaking of behavior using ctrl-E from the view desktop

haven't studied how that works...

Sorry, I wasn't clear from the start

It's just a simple line change in the View desktop.   In %vt-prefs.r 
, there keyboard map sets ctrl-E to                    [editor 'same] 
   I'm in favor of   [editor none]

But, I am working on getting a line count

ah yeah. that reminds me of another thing, which I reported in RAMBO 
#3934

i am in favor of a fixed file. [editor view-root/scratch.txt ]

Where would you place extra buttons?

Which extra buttons?

AFA line number / caret position, I would place it on a bar at the 
bottom of the editor

I will throw up a quick screen-shot as soon as I can get the proper 
setting for resizing

clean-script, diff, find/replace, such stuff.

josh, the bottom bar, wouldn't it be useful for small messages? "text 
'test' not found", "26 replacements done", "file saved", etc.

Yes!

About COPY-SELECTED-TEXT, I think too that without selection it just 
should not copy anything.

Maybe a new flag (copy-all ?) can be use to mark faces where you 
want a copy of all the text if there is no selection.

About mouse selection, yes you can find it on rebol.org.

Fortunately, you can select longer text with the keyboard (shift+down) 
:-)

hmm... how would I properly patch ctx-text's edit-text function?

It seems that I loose bindings on that function if I:

set in ctx-text 'edit-text func [newfunc]

Does anyone have a method for determining the line number in an area?

Henrik: try binding to ctx-text. Maybe thats all.

Josh. Yes. Somewhere.

It was something with offset-to-caret and parse string "^/" IIRC

If you have word wrap on you'll also have to calculate the width 
of the text field and find the wraps.

No, thats offset-to-caret.

Ah, you are right.  It's been a while since I played with the internals 
of the text area...

but which line? that of the caret, or of really displayed area?

Good question.  The initial question was kind of vague.

If it is caret, this (parsing could be improved to not copy, and 
polling dropped by patching feel or set-face)

s: copy""
repeat i 300[repend s [ i newline ]]
help text-info
view layout[ across
 ta: area s para[]  
 slider 16x150 [scroll-para ta face]
 return
 info rate 1 feel[  engage: func[face a e][

  set-face face either all[system/view/caret same? ta system/view/focal-face][
   lines: parse/all copy/part ta/text system/view/caret "^/"   
   form length? lines  
  ][
   "none"
  ]
 ]]  
]

(forget that "help text-info"..)

edit-text binding : IIRC you have to bind it to ctx-text and maybe 
system/view too.


set in ctx-text 'edit-text func [args] bind bind [newfunc] ctx-text 
system/view
(or something of this kind)

Is there a good intro to 3d, more based on examples than on math?

Working on the editor, I think the bar at the bottom works well http://www.geocities.com/kealist/edit.JPG

I think it's a bit dark... maybe it should have the same color as 
the top bar or the botton text should be white

You're right, it's updated now

BTW: has updating information been removed from View? When I start 
a 1.3.1.3.1 desktop under WinXP, I get no message about needing to 
upgrade to 1.3.2.

Hi - could anyone try following? I wanted to try some demos at my 
work, so I wen ty Cyphre's rebsite - start desktop\public\sites\cyphre\ 
 and try Magic carpet ...at my work, with latest View, I could run 
the script and once I tried to close it, Rebol crashed, each time. 
I wanted to try it here at home, to eventually submit RAMBO ticket, 
but I am not able to even start the script - window shows, I can 
see black background, I can see rotating hours icon, then it silently 
disappears ... so - could anyone try it too?