Experienced that too ( a lot )

Ben

On Apr 7, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> oh... I taught smalltalk for 3 years, using Pharo every lesson. 
> 
> During those years, I didn't met any single student that didn't tried to 
> press enter the first N times to get a completion. 
> And every time the student complained, until I repeated (often several times) 
> that they should use tab instead. 
> And every time they make the same question "why is not like in [put your 
> favorite IDE here]?"... still today, I do not have an answer, that's why I 
> think is better not to provoke the question :)
> 
> cheers,
> Esteban
> 
> 
> On Apr 7, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like a good classroom assignment for a class incorporating Usability 
>> Testing :)
>> 
>> Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>> I still think useEnterToAccept has to be true
>>> I sustain the idea of lower the entry level for the newcomers, instead 
>>> supporting as default the use-workflow of power users (they have a settings 
>>> browser there). We took this decision last year and I think it was a good 
>>> one... not that we cannot change, but I would stick with it for now. 
>>> I think the current completion functionality has some other problems that 
>>> makes it sometimes uncomfortable to use...
>>> 
>>> On Apr 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, stephane ducasse <stephane.duca...@free.fr> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 6, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Benjamin 
>>>> <benjamin.vanryseghem.ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> If everybody likes it, maybe we should consider putting this 
>>>>> configuration as default, no ?
>>>>> 
>>>> yes but first I would like to see the difference because I do not like it 
>>>> :)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Ben
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:59 PM, "Sean P. DeNigris" <s...@clipperadams.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> stephane ducasse wrote
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> would it be possible to get a couple of settings that you use?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  NECPreferences
>>>>>>          enabled: true;
>>>>>>          caseSensitive: true;
>>>>>>          expandPrefixes: true;
>>>>>>          useEnterToAccept: false;
>>>>>>          smartCharacters: true;
>>>>>>          smartCharactersWithDoubleSpace: '[]{}';
>>>>>>          spaceAfterCompletion: false;
>>>>>>          popupAutomaticDelay: 100.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> View this message in context: 
>>>>>> http://forum.world.st/Issue-10219-Completion-enter-on-accept-awkwardness-tp4679488p4679997.html
>>>>>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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