[plt-scheme] here-string

From: Scott Owens (sowens at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 8 14:14:49 EST 2004

Special -> Insert Text Box.

I implemented this to help me with a slideshow presentation I was 
making and it was indeed a simple tool.  I don't think it made it into 
v206, but it is in the exp tagged CVS version.

-Scott

On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:24 AM, John Clements wrote:

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> On Mar 7, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
>>   For list-related administrative tasks:
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>> At Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:48:32 -0500, "David J. Neu" wrote:
>>> I was wondering if something similar to scsh's line-delimited
>>> here-strings exists in mzscheme?
>>
>> On multiple occasions, I nearly added them to MzScheme (but each time 
>> I
>> started to add here-strings, I found a better solution to my immediate
>> problem).
>>
>> I'll add them for v300. I don't have any good suggestions, meanwhile.
>
> I'm guessing this would be easy to implement as a new "literal-string" 
> box/mred-snip.  This would not be helpful if it's important to run in 
> mzscheme, or if it's important to keep program files as text.
>
> FWIW, I believe this behavior could be added as a "tool" without 
> modifying DrScheme's source code.
>
> john



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