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Title: running box with parameters
Post by: ronw on February 03, 2014, 11:30:21 PM

From the message line, I can run:

box

and the current selection will be wrapped in a comment block.

Looking at box.e, it seems I should be able to run:

box '#ifndef DEBUG' '' '#endif' '' '' '' '' ''

and the selection will be wrapped with "#ifdef DEBUG" and "#endif".

But, I get the error "There are no comment block settings for '#ifdef'"

What am I doing wrong?

Title: Re: running box with parameters
Post by: ronw on February 04, 2014, 05:25:13 PM

I figured it out. I wrote a macro to call box with the "decorations" I want.

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#include "slick.sh"

_command cond()
{
   parse arg(1) with symbol;
   box("#ifdef " :+ symbol, "", "#endif // " :+ symbol, "", "", "", "");
}


Title: Re: running box with parameters
Post by: ronw on February 04, 2014, 05:49:51 PM

I made an enhanced, second macro:

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_command conde()
{
   parse arg(1) with symbol;
   box("#ifdef " :+ symbol, "", "#else\n#endif // " :+ symbol, "", "", "", "");
}

Which gave the following result:

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#ifdef FEATURE
And a paragraph of text for
testing purposes.         
#else)#endif // FEATURE

There is a ")" where I expected the line break.

Looking through box.e, the only possible thing I found to explain this is:

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s.blc=_UTF8ToMultiByte(s.blc);
Have I found a bug?