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Hi Joseph,
Thanks for your Abbreviations package in Dolphin 5.1. It is a very handy tool. My fingers, which usually bumble over "OrderedCollection", are very pleased to just type "oc" :) Thanks! Steve -- Steve Waring Email: [hidden email] Journal: http://www.stevewaring.net/blog/home/index.html |
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On Sun, 4 May 2003 19:06:35 +1000,
Steve Waring <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Thanks for your Abbreviations package in Dolphin 5.1. Abbreviations package? What Abbreviations package? < ... sound of me searching the image ...> wow! Are there more new goodies like that one, which I don't know about? Maybe I'll really have to start reading release notes... s. |
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Ditto - out of habit I typed an abbreviation I use in VA Smalltalk, and
poof! there is was. I had to stop and think where the hell I was ;> Thanks Joseph - jlo "Steve Waring" <[hidden email]> wrote in message news:b92leu$eqtmr$[hidden email]... > Hi Joseph, > > Thanks for your Abbreviations package in Dolphin 5.1. > > It is a very handy tool. My fingers, which usually bumble over > "OrderedCollection", are very pleased to just type "oc" :) > > Thanks! > Steve > > -- > Steve Waring > Email: [hidden email] > Journal: http://www.stevewaring.net/blog/home/index.html > > |
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"Steve Waring" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
news:b92leu$eqtmr$[hidden email]... > > Thanks for your Abbreviations package in Dolphin 5.1. I've been using them, too. I was interested in seeing whether Dolphin vets would change their spots, forgo the baby duck syndrome, and use this capability. |
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Steve Waring wrote:
>Hi Joseph, > >Thanks for your Abbreviations package in Dolphin 5.1. > >It is a very handy tool. My fingers, which usually bumble over >"OrderedCollection", are very pleased to just type "oc" :) > >Thanks! >Steve > >-- >Steve Waring >Email: [hidden email] >Journal: http://www.stevewaring.net/blog/home/index.html > about the only way I can get any coding done quickly. BTW - the abbreviations thingy works both ways. You can highlight any text and save it as an abbreviation. Great when you're doing boilerplate. I'm quite pleased that OA is so open to third-party contributions, and that the Dolphin community is so cool. I have a whole bunch of similar stuff around. Just have to get around to digging it out and porting it (using Rosetta, of course). It's just a pity there's no ENVY for Dolphin, or you'd have more add-ons than you could imagine... -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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Mark Wilden wrote: Sorry, but what's the "baby duck syndrome"?"Steve Waring" [hidden email] wrote in message Cheers -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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In reply to this post by Joseph Pelrine-6
Thanks !!.
Count me, too, in the appreciation list. As I knew, I installed it to my D4 and D5.01 images, from the "Abreviations" package available in http://www.smalltalking.net/Goodies/Dolphin/. I've used it for sometime. It suited my need in shorthand many routine typing of HTML tags such as: <div></div>, <table></table> etc. However, I've not migrated my working image to D5.1 so far, because I found it costed me a lot of work . First of all, it is not the same as easy as patching PL1-3 etc. There will be two systems after the installation. I found that after installing D5.1 in my environment, I cann't run my old D5.03 image as usual, it seemed that D5.03 and D5.1 cann't coexit, walkbacks shown when running the old image, indicating the problems possibly due to SSW workings. Therefore, I must uninstall D5.03 completely from my WinXP in order not to confuse the OS registration?, guessed. I don't know why? "Joseph Pelrine" <[hidden email]> > Aw, shucks <grin>. With my lame fingers, the abbreviations package is > about the only way I can get any coding done quickly. BTW - the > abbreviations thingy works both ways. You can highlight any text and > save it as an abbreviation. Great when you're doing boilerplate. > > I'm quite pleased that OA is so open to third-party contributions, and > that the Dolphin community is so cool. I have a whole bunch of similar > stuff around. Just have to get around to digging it out and porting it > (using Rosetta, of course). > > It's just a pity there's no ENVY for Dolphin, or you'd have more add-ons > than you could imagine... > > -- > -- > Joseph Pelrine [ | ] > MetaProg GmbH > Email: [hidden email] > Web: http://www.metaprog.com > > "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - > Doug Robinson > > > -- > -- > Joseph Pelrine [ | ] > MetaProg GmbH > Email: [hidden email] > Web: http://www.metaprog.com > > "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - > Doug Robinson > > |
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kuo wrote:
>Thanks !!. >Count me, too, in the appreciation list. > As I knew, I installed it to my D4 and D5.01 images, from the >"Abreviations" package available in >http://www.smalltalking.net/Goodies/Dolphin/. I've used it for sometime. It >suited my need in shorthand many routine typing of HTML tags such as: ><div></div>, <table></table> etc. > I wasn't aware of this page. It looks like someone "borrowed" the VA Assist version without our knowing ;-) In any case, the version shipping with Dolphin 5.1 *is* the same as the VA version. I should know, since I was the one who wrote the VA Assist version for Smalltalk Systems ... Cheers Joseph -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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Joseph,
I hacked your expandAbbreviation method a bit to show a ChoicePrompter when no shortcut is found. Made it easier for me to learn those shortcuts, just type shift-space and select the abreviation you need... - Pieter SmalltalkWorkspace>>expandAbbreviation | startAssoc start abbrev | startAssoc := self findSeparatorLeftAndKey: self selectionRange stop. start := startAssoc value + 1. abbrev := startAssoc key. abbrev isEmpty ifTrue: [| choices | choices := OrderedCollection new. self class abbreviations keysAndValuesDo: [:key :value | choices add: key , ' - ' , value]. (ChoicePrompter choices: choices asSortedCollection caption: 'Select shortcut') ifNotNil: [:string | self replaceSelection: (string subStrings: $-) last]. self view setFocus] ifFalse: [| replace end | replace := self class abbreviations at: abbrev ifAbsent: ["TextEdit normally inserts a space on Shift+Space, so continue to do that if not an abbreviation..." self replaceSelection: ' '. ^self]. self selectionRange: (start to: start + abbrev size - 1). self replaceSelection: replace. end := start + replace size. (replace last == $] or: [replace last == $)]) ifTrue: [end := end - 1]. self selectionRange: (end to: end - 1)] |
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Pieter Emmelot wrote:
> Joseph, > I hacked your expandAbbreviation method a bit to show a > ChoicePrompter when no shortcut is found. I also made a small change, the prompt for creating a new abbreviation now says, e.g: Desired abbreviation for <OrderedCollection new>? rather than just: Desired abbreviation for this text? Also added a test that the text was non-empty (otherwise it'll give walkbacks when using the abbreviation). Actually, I also made a change to the accelerators: switched "expand" to CTRL+Space (since that's something of an industry standard these days), and moved "capture" to CTRL+Shift+Space. I find that binding anything to Shift+Space causes me endless annoyance. It seems that I very rarely release the shift key fast enough after typing, say, a colon, so the following space triggers the accelerator every time. -- chris |
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In reply to this post by Joseph Pelrine-6
joseph,
a baby duck believes that the first thing it sees
is its mother, and never changes its mind.
also known as imprinting. the spots and baby duck
reference is a mixed metaphor to be sure.
i didn't know you wrote va assist pro! i use it
everyday in va, and it makes my (relatively)
simple life in smalltalk even simpler. good
job.
donald
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Donald MacQueen wrote: Give credit where credit is due - VAA is Eric Clayberg's baby. I only wrote *parts* of it, as did Alan Knight and a few others. In my case, I had a bunch of tools laying around that I wasn't going to package and sell by myself, so about the time VAA grew from being a composition editor on steroids to being a real toolbox, I reached a nice agreement with Eric about rolling my stuff in. I'm happy, he's happy, you're happy... Thinking of which, it might be nice to pull over the "maximize code pane" code (Alt-Z in VAA) into Dolphin... -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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Chris Uppal wrote: Good idea. I never did that because I tend to use abbreviations to move around BIG, multi-line chunks of text (widget definition code etc.), and that looks pretty darned ugly.Pieter Emmelot wrote:Joseph, To each his own. The shift-space hot key has been around for a long time, and changing it would screw things up for all those folks who know the tool from other dialects. At least Smalltalk allows us to customize our environments.Also added a test that the text was non-empty (otherwise it'll give walkbacks BTW - I used to have the same problem with my fingers. Piano lessons help ;-) -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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Joseph
> Good idea. I never did that because I tend to use abbreviations to move > around BIG, multi-line chunks of text (widget definition code etc.), and > that looks pretty darned ugly. snatchAbbreviation | key text show | (text := self selection) isNil ifTrue: [^self]. text isEmpty ifTrue: [^ self]. show := text size > 80 ifTrue: [(text first: 50) , ' ... ' , (text last: 30)] ifFalse: [text]. ((key := Prompter prompt: 'Desired abbreviation for <', show , '>?') notNil ... etc ... [changing accelerator keys] > To each his own. The shift-space hot key has been around for a > long time, and changing it would screw things up for all those > folks who know the tool from other dialects. At least Smalltalk > allows us to customize our environments. Oh sure, I wasn't suggesting that you change the defaults, only mentioning that I had thought it worthwhile to do so myself. > BTW - I used to have the same problem with my fingers. Piano lessons help ;-) Damn! And the only piano shop in town closed a few months back... -- chris |
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Chris Uppal wrote: Yeah, that would work. It is nice knowing what you are setting an abbreviation for. I'll roll your change into the next version.JosephGood idea. I never did that because I tend to use abbreviations to move As I said, it's nice that Smalltalk allows us to do things like that so easily. I *was* serious about that ;-) I used to drive my piano teacher crazy. Of course, having classical guitar fingernails didn't help either...BTW - I used to have the same problem with my fingers. Piano lessons help ;-) Cheers
-- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson -- -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: [hidden email] Web: http://www.metaprog.com "If you don't live on the edge, you're taking up too much space" - Doug Robinson |
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