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Subject: 
Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:41:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney writes:
> > I don't think the average, non-programmer users will 1) hand edit files too
> > often or 2) have a hard time learning //.
> 
> They might be comfortable with any number of conventions, but I guarantee
> they will forget sometimes if you try to require them to change the way they
> enter comments.

So we (well, the SB eventually) decide on one way, stick to it, and
implement it in programs. We can put a request in to Michael Lachmann to
change the insertion of "WRITE" (which is an improper use of a meta-command)
with "//" so future comments made in MLCad get the // (or whatever it is)
automatically inserted.

My 2 LDU.

-Tim



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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) They might be comfortable with any number of conventions, but I guarantee they will forget sometimes if you try to require them to change the way they enter comments. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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