On 6/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ralph Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:johnson@cs.uiuc.edu">johnson@cs.uiuc.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/8/06, Klaus D. Witzel <<a href="mailto:klaus.witzel@cobss.com">klaus.witzel@cobss.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:33:55 +0200, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I wonder why not use <- , two characters as := , but closer to original
<br>> > idea.<br><br>This is a bad idea, because you would be different from other<br>Smalltalks for no good reason. The right solution is to make the<br>editor smarter. That way you get compatibility AND a good user
<br>interface.</blockquote><div><br>I agree 100%.<br><br>I'm surprised that no one mentioned it, but for me, a big reason why I missed having the good ol' left arrow is because := just takes so many keys to type. <br><br>
I've been working on a patch to add a new keyboard shortcut to ParagraphEditor to allow control-= to insert assignment. For now, I'll definitely make it insert ':=', because that's the way things are going.<br></div><br></div>
Duncan.<br>