Excerpts from Chris Muller's message of 2015-02-26 17:11:35 +0100:
> 0 > self foo: (|)                                     "ah, the system
> typed the closing paren for me, NICE!"
> 1 >  self foo: (knorz bar: max)              "ah, there is something missing"
> 2 >  |self foo: (knorz bar: max)             " ... "
> 3 >  c add: |self foo: (knorz bar: max)      " oh, that now needs parens "
> 4 >  c add: (|)self foo: (knorz bar: max)    "ah, the system saved me
> a keystroke at 0, so I understand why it did this, is there a better
> way?"

pharo solves this problem by not inserting a closing ) if there is other text
right after the cursor:

3 >  c add: |self foo: (knorz bar: max)      " oh, that now needs parens "
4 >  c add: (|self foo: (knorz bar: max)

if i wanted to insert a new expression i'd type:

3 >  c add: |self foo: (knorz bar: max)      " oh, that now needs parens "
4 >  c add:| self foo: (knorz bar: max)      " back off to get some space"
3 >  c add: (|) self foo: (knorz bar: max)   " type space and ( ..." 

in the other case it behaves the same.

what i am wondering is, why at line 1, once the user moved away from the
closing ) it does not count as accepted?

that would solve the problem in line 8, because, someone typing without paying
attention to the auto-inserts would not move the cursor without actually typing
the ) directly.

greetings, martin.

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