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:zz: Marking Time
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- Subject: :zz: Marking Time
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:11:14 +0900
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Hi there
>Well, as I understand it the idea is to have the first cell in each
>mark group linked to the next mark group in d.marklist, so that you can
>step through all the mark groups.
Oops. Not quite.
d.marklist is where you tie together the cells of a given mark.
This is exactly like "inside"-- that is, how inside should
be working !-)
>> Also, what keys would I set it to? Or no keys at all? At the moment
>> I just have M and m mapped to marking and unmarking in m.1.
That's pretty much it-- or just one M will do.
>Then there also needs
>to be a way to modify existing marks.
See my suggested distinction between "m" and "M".
ChrzT
At 02:59 AM 8/10/98 +1000, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 10:10:35PM +1000, Gossamer wrote:
>> Ted Nelson wrote:
>> > The idea is that bunches of things can be marked,
>> > and each bunch has a separate list on d.marklist
>> > (maybe it should be d.listmarks?)-- so that a cell
>> > can be marked variously in different bunches.
>>
>> The way I am imagining this is it's sorta like regular highlighting,
>> only instead of doing it with just yellow you have a whole bunch of
>> pens. So then you can go back and say "Do X to all the bits I marked
>> red". Does that make sense?
>>
>> Except of course, with ZigZag, the "colours" are m.1 m.2 ... etc.
>
>Yes, that sounds right.
>
>> The part I'm not sure about is the marklist part ... I feel like I'm
>> being dumb. "A separate list on d.marklist" -- how do I do that?
>
>Well, as I understand it the idea is to have the first cell in each
>mark group linked to the next mark group in d.marklist, so that you can
>step through all the mark groups.
>
>> Also, what keys would I set it to? Or no keys at all? At the moment
>> I just have M and m mapped to marking and unmarking in m.1.
>
>Once marking on a given group is terminated you presumably increment the
>mark group number for next time. The current mark group number probably
>needs to be stored in a system cell somewhere. Then there also needs
>to be a way to modify existing marks.
>
>> Feeling proud she's half-implemented mark when
>> she didn't think she could.
>
>Well done!
>
>Cheers,
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