Hi ---,

the simplest solution is
1. Open preference browser
2. Search for ':='
3. Switch the Button from syntaxHighligthingAsYouTypeLeftArrowAssignment to
syntaxHighligthingAsYouTypeAnsiAssignment

Regards,
Michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] Im Auftrag von Philippe Marschall
> Gesendet: Montag, 30. April 2007 22:36
> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Betreff: Re: converting arrow to ':=' for assignment in squeak 3.9
> 
> 2007/4/30, Ralph Boland <rpboland at gmail.com>:
> > I am currently converting my squeak project from Squeak 3.8 to Squeak
> 3.9.
> > (Thanks by the way to the people who helped me installSqueak 3.9 in
> Linux.
> > Note that commands  'man squeak'  and  'man inisqueak'
> > still reports the existence of a  command 'inisqueak'
> > even though the command is not to be found.)
> >
> > My understanding was that as of 3.9  Squeak no longer supports use of
> the
> > arrow
> > for the assignment operator and that I must use ':='.  :-(
> > I thus expected that all my arrows would be converted to  ':=' upon
> fileIn.
> > But this doesn't happen.  Upon investigation I found the the arrow
> operator
> > still in use in the 3.9 code though it is now displayed as an underscore
> > (which
> > after all is what is is).
> >
> > Can someone explain to me clearly the  status of the underscore
> > character for Squeak 3.9 and beyond?
> >
> > Can someone explain to me how to convert my underscores to  ':=' or
> > must I write a sed script to do this?
> >
> > Note that I will use the arrow until I am forced to convert to ':='.
> 
> Squeak 3.9 still supports _ for assignments, it just prints it as _
> and not as an arrow (which confuses almost every newbie).
> 
> Automatic _ to := is not that simple, not every _ is an assignment and
> there are some live methods, which you can not just change. There is a
> script for this which handles most cases.
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
> 
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ralph Boland
> >
> > P.S.  I am running Squeak3.9  on Ubuntu 6.10 Linux on a PC.
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