On 12/20/15, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
> I think the original question was how to change one element from a
> collection by another one, in this case, replace a string by another one, by
> 'editing' an item, not to destructively modify a string (which would be a
> bad idea (tm)).
>
> Inspect:
>
>�� ��#('foo' 'bar') copy
>
> Go to the Raw view, double-click 'foo', edit it and press Return to accept
> -> no go.
>
> Normally, we can in-place edit by double-clicking, but that seems to be
> broken (well, you can edit but it won't accept the change).

Thanks for the more detailed description, Sven.

Yes, editing strings like this is what I aim at. Could this be fixed, please?

--Hannes

> I tried this in my working 40 image, and in a recent 50 image.
>
>> On 19 Dec 2015, at 21:24, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Strings are supposed to be immutable, and that is why we do not support
>> editing by default :).
>>
>> If you would want to provide editing tools for a String, you would need to
>> create a new inspector extension. This would probably be a bit cumbersome
>> because you would probably have to work with basic things like
>> String>>at:put:.
>>
>> A different way would be to not work with Strings directly, but with some
>> wrapper objects that hold those strings. In this case, it would be easy to
>> replace the wrapped string every time the editor changes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 11:53 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I am inspecting a collection of strings in Pharo 5.
>>>
>>> I wonder how I get at an edit pane to modify a particular string?
>>>
>>> Thank you for the answer in advance
>>>
>>> --Hannes
>>>
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