[squeak-dev] How do I convince a Workspace to stop "helping" me?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Apr 10 01:40:30 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 08:19:37PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> Bonk!  Of course, I _love_ Auto Enclose!  :-)
> 
> Because I'm not "typing a stream of code", I'm "composing nested expressions".

Ha! It makes sense to me now that you explain it that way. I guess that's why it's a preference :-)

For myself, much of what I do in workspaces has little to do with writing
code, which is why it comes across to me as an annoyance.

Dave

> 
> Now, when it included the less-than sign, I resented it, because it
> assuemed I was typing HTML.   But for '"([ and {, they always go in
> pairs.  The machine keeps my nestings correct and I can simply
> right-arrow to the next outer-level and press Command+Space to expose
> and "work on" that expression.  Love it.
> 
> Of the curiously strongly negative reactions, though, I was able to
> glean just one tidbit of feedback (Colins).
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 09-04-2014, at 5:54 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:37 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> You want the "Auto Enclose" preference in category "Morphic".
> >>
> >> I can't stand it either. Surprisingly little of my coding consists of typing code out linearly.
> >
> > Likewise. I really, really, hate this supposedly ???helpful??? kind of thing.
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.
> >
> >
> >


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