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Kirk Fraser

Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in the more rare events when I can use the feature. How can I safely stop it for all the p, brackets, and curly braces? Thanks.

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David T. Lewis

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Kirk Fraser wrote:
> The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is
> typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in
> the more rare events when I can use the feature. How can I safely stop it
> for all the p, brackets, and curly braces? Thanks.
>

Yes, there is a preference. Look in category "Morphic" and disable the
"Auto Enclose" preference.

Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.

Dave

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Levente Uzonyi-2

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Kirk Fraser wrote:
>> The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is
>> typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in
>> the more rare events when I can use the feature. How can I safely stop it
>> for all the p, brackets, and curly braces? Thanks.
>>
>
> Yes, there is a preference. Look in category "Morphic" and disable the
> "Auto Enclose" preference.
>
> Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.

This implmenentation is not the best. The one in E/OCompletion is better.

Levente

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Michael Rice

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

A better way to have, or not have, it is to use a key combination. Mathematica uses SHIFT-ALT ( , [ , or { to get (), [], or {}, otherwise you get the single character.

Michael

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, David T. Lewis wrote:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Kirk Fraser wrote:

The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is
typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in
the more rare events when I can use the feature. How can I safely stop it
for all the p, brackets, and curly braces? Thanks.

Yes, there is a preference. Look in category "Morphic" and disable the
"Auto Enclose" preference.

Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.

This implmenentation is not the best. The one in E/OCompletion is better.

Levente

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Bert Freudenberg

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

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> On 20.02.2015, at 17:29, Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:02:07PM -0800, Kirk Fraser wrote:
>>> The automatic supply of the right parenthesis when a left parenthesis is
>>> typed appears to cost me more time in deleting the extra than it saves in
>>> the more rare events when I can use the feature. How can I safely stop it
>>> for all the p, brackets, and curly braces? Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, there is a preference. Look in category "Morphic" and disable the
>> "Auto Enclose" preference.
>>
>> Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.
>
> This implmenentation is not the best. The one in E/OCompletion is better.

I love the feature (in other editors), but hate its current behavior. If that one is better, why don't we use that?

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Dan Norton

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

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> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>I love the feature (in other editors), but hate its current behavior. If that one is >better, why don't we use that?

+1 -but retain the preference so it can be turned off.

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Chris Muller-3

Re: Is there a preference setting to block automatic parentheses?

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>>> Some people like this preference a lot. Others think it is horrible.
>>
>> This implmenentation is not the best. The one in E/OCompletion is better.
>
> I love the feature (in other editors), but hate its current behavior. If that one is better, why don't we use that?

This preference is part of the low-level interface which affects the
overall fidelity of the Squeak user-experience. If we are going to
make any changes to this, may we please start it out in the Inbox
where we can all try it and discuss it in more objective terms than
"love", "hate", "better" and "horrible"?

I see OCompletion has a head version in SqueakMap, great! So we can
try it out right now and see why its better..
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