[TxMt] Quickie HTML named anchors

[Brett Terpstra]

I knew that shortcut seemed familiar.  It didn't conflict on the  
single document I was working on so I didn't catch it.  Thanks.

I will try out #2 this evening, good idea!

Brett

On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Brett Terpstra wrote:
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>> I had to whip this up this morning for a site that had a ton of  
>> named anchor tags.  There may have been something previously but I  
>> missed it.  If you highlight the text to link and hit CTRL-SHIFT- 
>> A, it will give you a dialog with a suggested name for the  
>> anchor.  Confirming the dialog after any necessary modifications  
>> will create the href link to the anchor and copy the name of the  
>> anchor to the clipboard.  Then you place the cursor or highlight  
>> the text to become the anchor and hit CTRL-SHIFT-A again.  It will  
>> create the anchor from the clipboard.  This makes for rapid index  
>> development.
>>
>> The only drawback is that my current system of using the same  
>> keyboard shortcut twice means if you hit undo after pasting the  
>> anchor you lose the clipboard and have to start that anchor over  
>> from the beginning.  It may be wise to separate the two functions,  
>> but I didn't want to take up more shortcuts than necessary ;).
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> Two suggestions:
> 1) Ctrl-shift-A is the subversion shortcut, I would opt for  
> something else.
> 2) I always get confused with the anchors terminology, so I will be  
> vague here and hope it will make sense, but you might want to make  
> one of the two commands so that it scans the document for  
> appropriate anchors and offers a pop-up list for you to choose  
> from, kind of like the label completion command works in LaTeX. I  
> probably have a different workflow than you though, but anyway just  
> my $0.02.
>
>> Brett
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> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
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