OMG, Jeanne DeVoto! I had no idea you were following this list. -- Peter
Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:09 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > At 1:29 PM +0100 12/12/2015, Lyn Teyla wrote: >> Some years back, pressing the <Tab> key to trigger indenting used to affect >> the entire script, but then it got changed to only affect the current >> handler for some reason. > > > This was changed because for very long scripts, indenting the entire script > (instead of just one handler) could cause a considerable pause when > indenting. (HyperCard did the whole script, but HyperCard also had a 32K > limit on a single script.) > > This was quite a while ago, and it's possible that it would not be much of an > issue now with faster CPUs. But that's why it changed. > -- > jeanne a. e. devoto > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
