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.


On 7 January 2012 05:32, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:

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




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