Ergonomics - Rant
Cédrick Béler
cbeler at enit.fr
Wed Jul 18 10:25:15 UTC 2007
Ramon Leon a écrit :
>> They irritated me too at the beginning. But I thought they
>> can be useful so I tried to get used to. Now, I think I'm
>> more efficient with them.
>>
>> When I want to enclose an expression, I first select the
>> expression then write an open parenthesis. This writes the
>> close parenthesis too.
>> --
>> Damien Cassou
>>
>
> Ditto, I love the auto parens. I much prefer to highlight and wrap
> expressions than manually opening, jumping to the end and closing. It's one
> of my favorite editor features.
>
>
same for me (I like and want them in my image)...
For the auto-parens, alt+shift+9 (not handy in a french notebook)... is
another shortcut to remember and I prefer delete the text before
pressing ( or [ ...
Actually, the problem I have is I don't know how to undo auto
parens...is there a way to do ?
Anyway, I've always noticed beginners/newcomers like this kind of
options (eCompletion/auto-parens...) whereas experienced one don't...
When you still hesitating with class names and methods, it's good to me
(even if we could argue that you learn better by making errors...:) )...
We have to keep both and the preference to switch should be more
visible... there is a developer image preference category but maybe the
list is a bit too long... Maybe something like "disable coding
completion facilities" ...
Cédrick
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