2010/7/31 Nick Ager <nick.ager@gmail.com>:
Hi Lukas,
My apologies - I've just downloaded the latest Eclipse and you are correct the smart-characters work in a similar manor. However one important usability difference is that when entering a string, my brain won't stop my fingers from closing the quote - even though my eyes see "Smart Characters" have automatically inserted the closing quote. On Eclipse the editor infers I'm typing the closing quote/bracket etc and skips over the already inserted "Smart Character", in Pharo it inserts another set of quotes giving me three quotes at the end of my string and leaving the insertion point between the first the second quote. Â I think this issue was shared by our CampSmalltalk beginners.
That's fairly easy to adapt, please try the following version from <http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/unsorted>:
 Name: ECompletion-lr.126  Author: lr  Time: 31 July 2010, 4:10:04 pm  UUID: 777d55d6-95e9-4630-a5ac-b35347286646  Ancestors: ECompletion-lr.125
 - try to be smarter with smart characters
Thanks for the that - it's getting there. A couple of issues: * The change appears to have introduced odd delete behaviour. When I delete a character within smart quotes, a character *and* the ending smart quote is deleted - different behaviour to prior to your change, * If I enter: Â (' Â in Eclipse when I type: Â ') it skips over both the closing ' and the closing ). Apologies for my pedantry.
Well, I am sorry I said it is fairly easy to adapt. The implementation was really bogus because it globally kept state. I rewrote the code from scratch and committed it here: Name: ECompletion-lr.127 Author: lr Time: 31 July 2010, 7:21:25 pm UUID: 42e3e807-2478-4dda-b207-acf162648cfe Ancestors: ECompletion-lr.126 - rewrote the complete smart character logic (very ugly) Now this is really ugly and long code and there are literally dozens of cases to handle. Let me know if it works better for you? I kind of like it. The behavior for smart characters and the backspace is now entirely different if there is a selection or if you are just typing. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch