The assignment character in 3.9 and onward
Todd Blanchard
tblanchard at mac.com
Wed Jun 7 14:15:29 UTC 2006
I would also suggest that the left arrow is off-putting to newbies.
There's no obvious key for it, and it causes a lot of confusion for
the user trying to figure out how to make one. So it ends up being a
barrier to entry. Making ParagraphEditor "magically" replace things
(or render them specially) isn't really better.
I think it's time to let this convention go - it's more trouble than
its worth.
-Todd Blanchard
On Jun 4, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Duncan Mak wrote:
> On 6/4/06, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> I realized that the preference may not be what you suggest.
> In that case propose an enh. Indeed this is important that all the
> code is store using one convention.
>
> With syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeAnsiAssignment enabled, I can see
> that _ will get converted to :=.
>
> In both OmniBrowser and Shout Workspace, this conversion only
> happens after having accepted the buffer (i.e. no more red border).
> It would be best if it could do it on the fly, without requiring
> the buffer be accepted.
>
> For now, I'll work on adding a new keybinding to ParagraphEditor
> (ctrl-=) for entering := and submit a patch for that. Later, when
> everything's been converted to use :=, maybe then I can put
> together a package to alter only the rendering of := to the left-
> arrow.
>
> Does that sound good?
>
> Duncan.
>
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