[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I found this in Notepad++ under Settings -> Preferences -> Auto-completion -> Auto-insert with separate checkboxes for (, {, [, ', ", html/xml tags, and up to 3 custom pairs. Way too elaborate for IDLE. The only question to me is whether to have just one

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My question about the idea is whether beginners would use this, or if it is the sort of 'expert' feature that IDLE should avoid. I may ask on python-list for more opinions.

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Change by Tal Einat : -- nosy: -taleinat ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Charles Wohlganger added the comment: The PR contains all the requested features, as well as mutual deletion (requested on PR page), and I have separated out the options for mutual deletion triggered by delete or triggered by backspace. I've found in usage that it was irritating to have both,

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Changes by Charles Wohlganger : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +3517 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Changes by Charles Wohlganger : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file47031/test_parenclose.py ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Charles Wohlganger added the comment: I've uploaded a test file and updated ParenClose. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file47030/ParenClose.py ___ Python tracker

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Changes by Charles Wohlganger : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file47029/test_parenclose.py ___ Python tracker ___

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Charles Wohlganger added the comment: I (foolishly) was committing to master for a different IDLE enhancement. Until that one is pulled, I don't think I can make a new PR without it also having all the changes from my previous one. New uploaded file has docstrings for the ParenClose class

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Louie Lu added the comment: Charles, good to saw the patch, would you like to convert it into GitHub PR? also, it would have to adjust some coding style to satisfy PEP8. I can help you on GitHub to review this patch. -- nosy: +louielu ___ Python

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Charles Wohlganger added the comment: I've written an extension (see file) that does auto insertion of closing parens, brackets, braces, ticks, and quotes. It also (optionally) skips the closers when they are typed right next to the already exiting one. It also takes into account triple-ticks

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy nosy: -BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue18875] Idle: Auto insertion of the closing parens, brackets, and braces

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This would have to be an extension, default off unless overridden, which is why I added config-extensions as dependency. -- dependencies: +IDLE - Add an extension configuration dialog title: Automatic insertion of the closing parentheses, brackets, and