[Sc-devel] Old style help links

[Till Bovermann]

On 02.11.2007, at 11:30, Scott Wilson wrote:

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> On 2 Nov 2007, at 10:02, Till Bovermann wrote:
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>> On 02.11.2007, at 10:47, Till Bovermann wrote:
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>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> On 02.11.2007, at 00:28, Scott Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Can I suggest that we don't add any more [old style help links]  
>>>> to existing or new doc? AFAIK these were all replaced when the  
>>>> html conversion was done, but some have crept back in. This  
>>>> functionality may be deprecated or removed at some point, and if  
>>>> we add them now it just means more work later, and that they  
>>>> won't work in browsers.
>>>
>>> Thing with these [old style help links] is: they're easy to type...
>>> Proposal:
>>> - Have a command "HelpPage".asURL creating a URL
>>> - Have a command Object:valueReplaceSelected replacing currently  
>>> selected text in active Document with its return-value
>> 	might be difficult, because URL is not text, but rtf-specific  
>> stuff (?)
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> If I understand what you're proposing this is more or less done  
> automatically by selecting text and Cmd-shift-L. If there's a help  
> file with that name you'll get a link.
Nevermind, wasn't aware of this functionality
>
> We shouldn't be adding rtf files either I think at this point.
Didn't want to add rtf files... (I meant NSTextField syntax or  
something... can't explain it properly in text...)


Till