On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@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.
So do it *when there's an expression to enclose*, not every time you type the character.
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..
You know, one can type non-Smalltalk in SMalltalk (class comments, snippets of HTML, angry messages to Squeak-dev), not just platonic Smalltalk. And the Auto-enclose crap doesn't help there.
Anyway, I can turn it off. Hope no noobs will be equally irritated...