[racket] Parens/string quotes automatic behavior

[Laurent]

Hi,

The new behavior of automatic parenthesis matching is really nice, but there is one problem with string quotes.

For example, if the cursor is in the middle of a string and I type the string-quote symbol ", it places a quote which cuts the current string and leaves the right part in a bad syntax.

Most of the time, when I type a quote inside a string, it's because I want to split the string in two parts.

To do that, I have to type string-quote, string-quote, delete (to remove the extra string-quote added by the paren-match behavior), and left to go back between the two strings, which is mildly annoying.

Would it be possible (unless problematic) to have the default paren-match behavior for strings that splits the string instead of inserting a single string-quote, possibly unless the left symbol is a backslash?

Laurent

[John Clements]

+1. I've developed a reflex to compensate for this, which is double-quote double-quote double-quote delete left-arrow… which is a bit painful.

John


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[Laurent]

(actually double-quote, double-quote, backspace is more efficient, but just typing double-quote would be so much simpler, in particular because when I need this, I need it often, e.g. in slideshow)

[Nadeem Abdul Hamid]

Ok ok. :-) I will try to work on it in the next day or so if no one else gets to it first.

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[Laurent]

Thanks!