[Pharo-project] Smart bracketing annoyance

[Ben Coman]

I am still coming to terms with the "smart" bracketing where pressing
the open-round-bracket key also produces a close-round-bracket, but I'm
working on adapting. One thing that is ultra-annoying and that could be
smarter is where for instance, being new to Smalltalk, I have got my
round and square brackets mixed up preceding an ifTrue:.

So I highlight the open-round-bracket, press the open-square-bracket
expecting it to be replaced (like every other system I've dealt with)
and surprise* now I've got the original round-bracket surrounded by two
new square-brackets. If it instead found the matching
close-round-bracket and changed both round-brackets to square-brackets,
that would be cool rather than frustrating.

The same applies to trying to correct string quotes and comment quotes.

I hope that sounds reasonable and it would nice if it could be changed.

cheers, Ben

*surprise - not good for people new to the software you are trying to
impress

[Milan Mimica]

I'll just hijack here: I also wouldn't be totally uncool if you could select a block of code an press (shift-)tab to (un)ident it. Basic stuff really.

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Milan Mimica
http://sparklet.sf.net

[Lukas Renggli]

For the "smart" bracketing: Either do not load eCompletion, or change
the settings in "Code browsing > eCompletion".

For the indention press Ctrl+Shift+L and Ctrl+Shift+R.

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch

[Ben Coman]

Thanks Lucas. I am using the stock Pharo-1.3-13315 image and found it
under "Code Browsing > OCompletion > Smart Characters"

Although I do like the concept (I often do the same manually) I need
more control of when its occurs. A ctrl-key combination would be
ideal. Also whoever is packaging the next version OneClick should
consider whether its appropriate to be enabled by default for those
having their first experience with Pharo.
-Ben