I believe way back in about early 4.4, i was able to do the following in order to get that functionality, I sorta got used to the auto add of the closing bracket.

From my migration script:

"=================================="
"OCompletion provides source code completion as you type"
"Has some issues loading into 10759"
"(Installer ss project: 'OCompletion') install: 'Ocompletion'.
(Smalltalk at: #ECToolSet) register. 
(Smalltalk at: #ToolSet) default: (Smalltalk at: #ECToolSet)."

"This is needed in order to reload the saved prefs file"
"Installer ss project: 'MetacelloRepository'; install:
'ConfigurationOfOCompletion'.
#(project stableVersion load)
   	inject: (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfOCompletion)
   	into: [ :object :selector | object perform: selector ]."
	
"OCompletion provides source code completion as you type"
(Installer ss project: 'OCompletion') install: 'Ocompletion'.
(Smalltalk at: #ECToolSet) register.
(Smalltalk at: #ToolSet) default: (Smalltalk at: #ECToolSet).
"==================================“

I’m sorta remember an eCompletion as well, and maybe also something in OmniBrowser?

Hope this helps.

Ken G. Brown


On Apr 9, 2014, at 18:37, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:18:27PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> 
>> On 09-04-2014, at 5:11 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Whenever I type an open-paren $( in a Squeak 4.5 workspace, some mysterious
>>> agent of code format rectitude steps in and supplies the matching close-paren.
>>> This is hugely annoying and I can't seem to find any preferences or workspace
>>> menu settings to make it stop.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to make this feature go away?
>> 
>> Helpful code can be so unhelpful, right? See if by any chance the syntaxHighlightinasyoutype preference is on - in the ?browsing? section of the prefs browser. There?s also shoutstylinginworkspace. Neither of them was on in my 4.5 image but y?never know.
>> 
> 
> I tried both of those, no joy. Actually, I looked through every preference
> in the Preference Browser, and all the settings in the workspace menu. I must
> be missing something, but I can't make this feature go away.
> 
> Dave
>