[squeak-dev] open paren/brace/bracket...
Chris Muller
asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 20:12:04 UTC 2014
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> first, excuse the venting. Who the %*&^$# decided to inflict the "always
> type a matching open/close pair" when typing any of ( [ { etc on us? Would
> that person please consider commiting hara kiri?
>
> OK, now slightly calmer, I find it /exceedingly/ annoying. Is this really
> an appropriate default? How does one turn it off?
>
>
> The cases that send me up my *&%$^# tree are when I intend to add a single
> one in front of some string when I go back to edit some text (e.g. add an
> exception handler around some phrase). Here, typing the pair *is just
> broken*. Doing it at the end of a text or at the end of line is defensible.
> Doing it always IS F*&^%$*G BROKEN.
Calm down, won't you? If you need to add an exception handler around
some phrase, why not just highlight the phrase and press Command+[ to
surround it with brackets.
Some people like to "edit text" and some people like to "edit
expressions". Personally, I find "editing text" pretty old-school,
and a lot more tedious..
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