On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > > > For professional programmers, it was unbearable. We found it is > > impossible to resist typing the "([" after typing LETREC. Old habits > > die hard, so we took the entire feature out. > > There's a simple solution to this, which we did in the prototype > WeScheme editor we built last summer, and which I noticed Eclipse does > too: if you type ([, and that's already in the buffer, the editor just > moves over the characters (ie, it's like hitting "right-arrow until > you're past the parenthetical character you typed"). Works great. > > It obeys an important principle, which is that a person who knows the > syntax and is comfortable just typing it can continue to do so using > muscle memory. This way they get the best of both worlds.
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