>> 1)  Is there a preference to disable CornerGrips on SystemWindows?  I
>> would rather resize with any frame as the handle.  There is a preference
>> to disable grips on panes, but not on the window as a whole.
>
> That's part of the new UI design of 3.9.

Ah, okay.  I must live with it then.  :)

>> 2)  Is there a preference to disable auto-completion of strings,
>> comments,
>> blocks, etc?  I would rather not have it type a closing " for me when I
>> type my initial ".  Already there is a keyboard command in Smalltalk for
>> me to put these in there if I want to.  But I don't.  :)
>
> There is a setting called ecompletionSmartCharacters in the preference
> browser.

Excellent!  I can't believe I missed that.  Thank you.

>> 3)  I want my left-arrows back :)   No more underscores!  Can I get
>> these
>> back?  Or are they gone for good with 3.9?  Please, say it ain't so.
>
> The left arrow is dead. The syntax highlighter has some preferences
> for that, but I don't know what they exactly do:
> syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeAnsiAssignement and
> syntaxHighlightingAsYouTypeLeftArrowAssignement.

I believe these convert one assignment style to the other as they are
typed/entered.

Thanks,
Tim