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Issue 6108 in pharo: Typing ' in Workspace gives ''

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New issue 6108 by [hidden email]: Typing ' in Workspace gives ''
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6108

Pharo1.4
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Re: Issue 6108 in pharo: Typing ' in Workspace gives ''

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Comment #1 on issue 6108 by [hidden email]: Typing ' in  
Workspace gives ''
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6108

This is not a bug, but a feature called smart characters. When you type  
a ', (, [ or { you normally want the enclosing one too.

There is a setting to disable them if they annoy you.


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Re: Issue 6108 in pharo: Typing ' in Workspace gives ''

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Comment #2 on issue 6108 by [hidden email]: Typing ' in Workspace  
gives ''
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6108

As a new user of Pharo I did find this off putting - it might drive away
less motivated new users. They might, like me, think it's a bug. But
instead of reporting it they are likely to just run away.

If you want to keep new users, it might be best to turn off this "feature".
No doubt I will now, like you, get used to it and maybe (!) end up thinking
it's marvellous. But first impressions count - and this is a bad first
impression. Why not do like every other text package in the universe and
actually give the users what they type in? Later they can turn on smart
characters if they think they are a good idea...

In an early (page 20) PBE example you don't want enclosure:

Don't panic, just keep coding :)


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Re: Issue 6108 in pharo: Typing ' in Workspace gives ''

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Comment #3 on issue 6108 by [hidden email]: Typing ' in Workspace  
gives ''
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6108

FYI Eclipse does exactly the same (and that's quite something of an IDE :P).

And when you're inside a String ('Don') and add a single quote it will only  
add a single character ('Don'').

Most of the time you write code, not prosa text, so this feature makes a  
lot of sense to be enabled by default :)


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Comment #4 on issue 6108 by [hidden email]: Typing ' in Workspace  
gives ''
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6108

@cami +1


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