[squeak-dev] open paren/brace/bracket...

Ron Teitelbaum ron at usmedrec.com
Thu Apr 17 21:09:19 UTC 2014


Ok found it!

World Menu > open... > Preferences Browser > 

Select Morphic  (No not the morphic with lower case m) 

Disable "Auto Enclose"

Woo hoo.  You can now go about your business in your once again serene
world!

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum
Head Of Engineering
3d Immersive Collaboration Consulting
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of David T. Lewis
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 4:11 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] open paren/brace/bracket...
> 
> See the 'How do I convince a Workspace to stop "helping" me?' thread for
> previous rants and rationalizations ;-)
> 
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2014-
> April/177810.html
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > unhappily,
> > Eliot
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 




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