Re: format

Scott Raney (raney@metacard.com)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:46:07 -0700 (MST)

On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Simon Lord wrote:

> Why is it that when I edit the script of any object the MetaTalk
> language is all justified to the left? I'm finding it harder to work as
> the scripts get larger.
>
> The examples provided with metacard are properly formated, did someone
> simply painstakingly edit it to look that way?

It's not so painful, you just hit the tab key to add a couple of
spaces before each line (billions of lines of C and COBOL code have
been written in editors with less functionality ;-)

Autoformatting when you hit the tab key will be in the 2.1.1 release,
which should go to beta-test in a few weeks.
Scott

> help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
> --
> [---------------------------] Simon Lord
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