i have heard rumours about an abomination named "stack".
THe very thought sends shivers down my spine.
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Should there be a 'generalized' message box that doesn't use binbuf_eval at all but rather gets a more spohisticated interpreter?
FTM msgbox?
Hmm, thanks for pointing me to that. It doesn't do everything we're hoping for here but goes some way.
Here's a (mad) thought. What if messages boxes could send messages to "1", "2", etc., which would sprout outlets? Something like this:
; 1 2 3; 2 3 4
would send the message "2 3" to the first outlet and then "3 4" to the second one.
I don't see a good way to implement this yet. But it might take care of the majority of situations in which people now have to do $0 tricks, and if so, it might be worth some ugliness in the implementation.
cheers M