<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> first, excuse the venting. Who the %*&^$# decided to inflict the "always<br>
> type a matching open/close pair" when typing any of ( [ { etc on us? Would<br>
> that person please consider commiting hara kiri?<br>
><br>
> OK, now slightly calmer, I find it /exceedingly/ annoying. Is this really<br>
> an appropriate default? How does one turn it off?<br>
><br>
><br>
> The cases that send me up my *&%$^# tree are when I intend to add a single<br>
> one in front of some string when I go back to edit some text (e.g. add an<br>
> exception handler around some phrase). Here, typing the pair *is just<br>
> broken*. Doing it at the end of a text or at the end of line is defensible.<br>
> Doing it always IS F*&^%$*G BROKEN.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Calm down, won't you? If you need to add an exception handler around<br>
some phrase, why not just highlight the phrase and press Command+[ to<br>
surround it with brackets.<br>
<br>
Some people like to "edit text" and some people like to "edit<br>
expressions". Personally, I find "editing text" pretty old-school,<br>
and a lot more tedious...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You do know about alt-enclose don't you? </div></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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