On 31 December 2013 16:51, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 December 2013 16:48, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A preference to make "cut and pasting" of code easier?  And this on
>>>> top of the fact that we have a hot-key to remove all formatting
>>>> (Cmd+0).
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah. You got a problem with cut-and-paste?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On top of that, Shout makes it irrelevant doesn't it?  It does not
>>>> appear Shout can even be disabled anymore --
>>>> #syntaxHighlightingAsYouType has no effect and no senders.
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, I'd like to see the preference change to
>>> #ignoreStyleWhenPastingCode or something like that. With Shout, code is
>>> always styled, and it makes pasting it a pain.
>>
>> Cut-and-pasting _should_ be painful, so you will be encouraged to
>> write factored code instead.  :)
>
> Specifically, _copy_ and pasting should be painful. Cut-n-paste is
> nearly Extract Method!
>
>> You want to c&p that "self initialize" don't you?  Ha ha, just kidding!!  :-)
>>
>> Besides, I don't think one hot-key Cmd+0 is all that painful anyway.
>>
>> But wait!  If you're using Shout, how will you stop the method from
>> being styled as soon as you type the next character?
>>
>> And, if you're not using Shout then "cut" will be cutting plain text anyway..
>>
>> So, unless I'm missing something, this preference seems so useless its crazy.
>
> It does seem that way to me. It looks like pre-Shout cruft.

Ignore this. Too many Preference discussions floating around. _This_
preference doesn't look like pre-Shout cruft. It's the
#askIfAddStyle:req: stuff that smells like stale cruft sauce to me.

frank