Ergonomics - Rant

Cédrick Béler cbeler at enit.fr
Wed Jul 18 10:25:15 UTC 2007


Ramon Leon a écrit :
>> They irritated me too at the beginning. But I thought they 
>> can be useful so I tried to get used to. Now, I think I'm 
>> more efficient with them.
>>
>> When I want to enclose an expression, I first select the 
>> expression then write an open parenthesis. This writes the 
>> close parenthesis too.
>> --
>> Damien Cassou
>>     
>
> Ditto, I love the auto parens. I much prefer to highlight and wrap
> expressions than manually opening, jumping to the end and closing.  It's one
> of my favorite editor features.
>
>   
same for me (I like and want them in my image)... 
For the auto-parens, alt+shift+9 (not handy in a french notebook)... is 
another shortcut to remember and I prefer delete the text before 
pressing ( or [ ...

Actually, the problem I have is I don't know how to undo auto 
parens...is there a way to do ?

Anyway, I've always noticed beginners/newcomers like this kind of 
options (eCompletion/auto-parens...) whereas experienced one don't... 
When you still hesitating with class names and methods, it's good to me 
(even if we could argue that you learn better by making errors...:) )...

We have to keep both and the preference to switch should be more 
visible... there is a developer image preference category but maybe the 
list is a bit too long... Maybe something like   "disable coding 
completion facilities" ...

Cédrick






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