[squeak-dev] autoEnclose preference

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Dec 25 02:25:38 UTC 2019


On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 8:02 AM K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/12/19 9:11 AM, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> > What "problems" are those?   Just as you see in the subject-line of this
> > email, for every open-parenthesis, there's a closing, as well as for
> > every open bracket, a closing.  That's the structure of these characters
> > in every normal context.  "Problems" arise when they get out of balance,
> > which is why other editors have this feature too.  IIRC, eclipse was
> > doing it in 2005.
> One of the problems I face frequently is because autoEnclose inserts a )
> when I type ( but does not remove it when I backspace over (. For
> instance, I type (teh, realize my typo and backspace over it including
> the ( but I am left with a dangling ). I prefer typing cmd-( when I need
> matching ().
>

I must've forgotten that eclipse did that, too, because now that you
mention that, I think it did...

It was not too hard to fix.  Please try Morphic-cmm.1613 in the inbox.

Best,
  Chris


>
> Regards .. Subbu
>
>
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