Referring to the main topic of this thread: maybe we need a fourth
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On 8/30/18, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> auto-enclose is one of those things that relates to how one types and the
>> present circumstances of work. I find it utterly infuriating; Chris finds
>> it essential. Being able to select some text and enclose it with my choice
>> of delimiter is essential to me - but having the automatic doubling of a
>> delimiter whether I actually need it or not is just a bad match for my
>> usage.
>
> It no longer "doubles" the closing parenthesis, so you can type
> exactly the same (including the closing paren) and you'll get exactly
> the same results -- just a single closing paren -- just as when its
> off.
>
> I understand it still may not suit you, but I just wanted to make sure
> you knew that aspect was fixed a while back...
>
>> It's a similar thing with the code styling. I really don't like automagic
>> styling as done by Shout a great deal (but it's much less annoying now
>> that Cog runs on Pi, since a non-trivial part of the irritation was the
>> way it really slowed down the old VMs). I might like it more if it were
>> also  doing some of the pretty-printing format regularisation BUT I really
>> suspect that 'physically' moving your typing around as you go would be
>> annoying.
>
> Indeed!  When I change existing methods, I often type the new code up
> against the left margin as fast as I can (no tabs and totally
> unformatted) so I can easily _see_ which parts of the method I'm
> changing.  Then before saving, I'll just use [Command+Shift+S] to
> format the whole method in one shot.  I actually detest "autoIndent"
> because it gets in the way of that and mostly just complexifies the
> tabbing (sometimes you need [Tab], sometimes [Backspace], where's the
> improvement?).
>
> An alternative to this which may alleviate your performance concern
> would be to add a preference something like, "Style Continuously",
> which would do either all the time like now or only when you
> pretty-print or save the method.
>
>> Also, I'd probably like it a bit more if the styling cues were a little
>> more visible to aging eyes.
>
> Have you tried the Community Theme?  A lot of UI design thought went
> into it.  If you don't like it, its easy to customize a theme for your
> eyes.
>
>> auto-indent actually seems to work ok for my usage but I imagine it might
>> be something that could work with a styler to help keep formatting nice.
>
> What I want is to be able to use Command+Shift+S on only the
> *selected* code instead of the whole method.   It seemed like a simple
> change (changeset attached) but unfortunately the compiler only
> compiles whole chunks of code that include, for example, all the
> variable definitions too, not just the partials code that was
> selected.
>