Thoughts on User Mode

[primer]

(12-21-2017 08:27 AM)Giancarlo Wrote:  Is the EDITLINE command supposed to edit an object bringing the user to the command line or define a new environment like the EDITLIST command does?

If formatting is a must maybe an environment like the NOTES is better.

I am interested in this command.

Thanks

Giancarlo

For my part, I had in mind an object that could interact with what you are editing (that could be a program in its environment, a command line in CAS or home... a formula, a note...)
The object could be used in "user mode" scope.
Possible interactions could be read and write what you are editing, altering selection, changing cursor location....

example of usage, let's say you create user key shift [+] with the following function :
- read what you are editing as a string (let's says you are in program editor).
- in this string, find every functions, display a list of these functions,
- when user choose one of these function, modify the cursor position to move to the choosen function.
Ok, it's not easy, but I can see a lot of feature we could add like this

note : we also need to know in which environment we are (program editor, home entry, notes...)