editor niceties

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Wed Feb 4 10:04:29 UTC 2004


Hrvoje Blazevic <hrvoje at despammed.com> wrote:
> Now that I have focus policy under control -- I'm on to the next 
> question (complaint :-) .
> 
> I guess I'm spoiled by Emacs Logo/Scheme/Lisp modes, therefore I do miss 
> several things in Squeak editor:
> 
> (By editor I assume browser -- as far as I understand this is the place 
> where the actual code gets written)
> 
> 1) No automatic indentation?

Not sure actually.

> Is there a way to turn this on? Having to hit Tab repeatedly is 
> disappointing.
> 
> 2) Is there something like dabbrev mode that can be turned on in the 
> browser/editor? I'm not a touch typist, and tend to make a lot of typos 
> when typing long words, especially if they contain several capitals in 
> the middle.
> 
> (For uninitiated: dabbrev mode is dynamic abbreviation completion -- 
> type a few beginning letters of a word and hit M-/ repeatedly until you 
> get the right completion).
> 
> Does anything like this exist in Squeak?

alt-q

But it could probably be made smarter - especially when doing self/super
sends and when using it inside the debugger (where you actually have
objects at your fingertips).

regards, Göran



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