On Apr 25, 2006, at 10:21 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:
Excellent points, all. Maybe we'll just come up with some random command to make it work by replacing the document with a snippet.
Probably once we get mouse gestures, then the snippet idea might actually work (at least for the first command click), reasonably well. Of course, we could, even now, have a key that inserts a "special character", and once you've inserted all the special characters at each location you want, then have a command that reads the entire document and inserts it as a snippet, replacing those special characters with $1 or something. We could build this as is now, and make it require less keystrokes once mouse gestures are around.
Not sure what the scaling performance of inserting the entire document as a snippet is, but it's worth a try.
Obviously it couldn't work exactly the same. :D
Thanks for letting us down easily
Haris