Terry J. Reedy <[email protected]> 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 option for all 5 openers or separate option to
complete ([{ versus quotes.
Concerns: a) matching triple quotes is a bit baroque, though possible the most
useful part of the feature; b) except for completing tripple quotes, no
keystrokes are saved, and then only if one used End to skip three chars at
once. On the other hand, at least some people who have use the feather
elsewhere consider it a net win.
Implementation notes: 1. IDLE editors uses two mechanisms to respond to
keystrokes. The delegator mechanism checks all keystrokes and responds to
some. IDLE otherwise binds keystrokes to event-handlers or to pseudoevent
bound to event-handlers. Perhaps these could be unified and made more
efficient.
2. In the meanwhile... Menu items are bound to pseudoevents, along with
corresponding hot heys. This issue will *not* add a menu entry "Add matching
closer". So the openers can be bound directly to event handlers that look at
the opener.
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versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8
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