In article <chrishuff_99-20910D.19132109032000@news.povray.org> , Chris Huff
<chr### [at] yahoocom>  wrote:

> That would be a nice option for the Mac version too, which I believe
> uses the WASTE text engine. This capability might be built in to the
> WASTE engine already...

No, unfortunately not. The WASTE text engine is actually targeted as a
replacement for small scale word processing (World Script Aware _Styled_
Text Engine), and was originally not even designed as plain editor.
In the official version I had to add numerous hooks support all the nice
editor-like features like auto-indenting and syntax coloring. MacMegaPOV
also uses WASTE, and currently has functions around WASTE to get indenting.

Either way, WASTE was not designed as an editor. It does a good job, but
adding such features as auto-completion is either done by a lot of working
around it or by some inside modifications and hooks.  It is possible with
reasonable work, but not a free feature :-(


    Thorsten

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