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author | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2016-11-30 19:26:16 +0100 |
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committer | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2016-11-30 19:26:16 +0100 |
commit | e4d5a995a037ae938d08480359a53dc097deec21 (patch) | |
tree | 22008b9228eee017c86a2eb8b4ca0772c2c953c9 /TODO | |
parent | 8460f925248b99e94169bbfa9f2645de677f2e27 (diff) | |
download | sciteco-e4d5a995a037ae938d08480359a53dc097deec21.tar.gz |
allow dollar sign as another variant of ^[ (discard all arguments or return)
* some classic TECOs have this
* just like ^[, dollar works as a command only, not as a string terminator
* it improves the readability of macros using printable characters only
* it closes a gap in the language by allowing $$ (double-dollar) and
^[$ as printable ways to write the return from macro command.
^[^[ was not and is not possible.
* since command line termination is a regular interactive return-command
in SciTECO, double-dollar will also terminate the command line now.
This will be allowed unless it turns out to be a cause of trouble.
* The handling of unterminated commands has been cleaned up by
introducing State::end_of_macro().
Most commands (and thus states) except the start state cannot be
valid at the end of a macro since this indicates an unterminated/incomplete
command.
All lookahead-commands (currently only ^[) will end implicitly
at the end of a macro and so will need a way to perform their action.
The virtual method allows these actions to be defined with the rest
of the state's implementation.
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -160,10 +160,20 @@ Features: between effective and rubbed out command line - without resetting it. This would add another alternative to { and } for fixing up a command line. - * some missing useful VideoTECO/TECO-11 commands: + * some missing useful VideoTECO/TECO-11 commands and unnecessary + incompatibilities: * EF with buffer id * ER command: read file into current buffer at dot * nEW to save a buffer by id + * EI is used to open an indirect macro file in classic TECO. + EM should thus be renamed EI. + EM (position magtape in classic TECO) would be free again, + e.g. for execute macro with string argument or as a special version + of EI that considers $SCITECOPATH. + Current use of EI (insert without string building) will have + to move, e.g. to FI. + * ^S (-(length) of last referenced string), ^Y as .+^S,. + * ^Q convert line arg into character arg * ^A and stdio in general * Buffer ids should be "circular", i.e. interpreted modulo the number of buffers in the ring. This allows "%*" to wrap at the |