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angular.module('modelDemo', []).
config(function ($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider.
    when('/', {
        controller: 'AuthorListCtrl',
        templateUrl: 'list.html'
    }).
    otherwise({
        redirectTo: '/'
    });
});

angular.module('modelDemo').controller("AuthorListCtrl", ['$scope', function($scope) {
    $scope.list;
    var fowler = {
        name: "Fowler"
    };
    var twain = {
        name: "Twain"
    };
    var poe = {
        name: "Poe"
    };
    var plato = {
        name: "Plato"
    };
    
    twain.quote = "Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere" +
        ", and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush.' It is enough " +
        "to make one ashamed of one's species.";
    fowler.quote = "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. " +
        "Good programmers write code that humans can understand.";
    poe.quote = "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, " +
        "fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.";
    plato.quote = "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, " +
        "when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, " +
        "and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ";
    
    $scope.list = [twain, fowler, poe, plato];   
    
    $scope.selectQuote = function(author) {
        $scope.selectedQuote = author.quote;
        $scope.selectedAuthor = author;
    }
    
    $scope.isSelected = function(author) {
        return author === $scope.selectedAuthor;
    }
}]);

<div ng-app="modelDemo">
    <div ng-view></div>

    <!-- CACHE FILE: list.html -->
    <script type="text/ng-template" id="list.html">
        <div class = "row options"> 
            <div class="large-2 columns options"> 
                 <a ng-repeat="author in list" ng-click="selectQuote(author)" class="{{isSelected(author) && 'selected' || ''}}">{{author.name}}</a>
            </div>
            <div class="large-10 columns end padtop">
                <textarea name="quotetext" id="quotetext" readonly>{{selectedQuote}}</textarea> 
             </div>        
        </div >
    </script>
    
</div>