On 25/04/2019 12:27, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:> But having the opening bracket auto-added is a small satisfaction, I'm not going to weigh in on this feature: I can see it either way. What I don't get is why we don't go full metal Emacs, by adding the corresponding end delimiter, and backspace. In each line below the RHS are the characters typed, the LHS the characters inserted, and the vertical bar | represents the position of the insertion cursor: ( => (|) [ => [|] { => {|} " => "|" "" => ""| # fooled ya, didn't I? Could do it for parens too. """ => """|""" '' => ''| ''' => '''|''' There may be others. And bonus points for DTRT in strings and comments (especially for "'", since it's used as apostrophe in non-program text). Once I got used to it, I found it really cut down on the annoyance of counting parens and making sure start parens weren't paired with end braces and similar errors. YMMV, of course.
My mileage definitely varies. This sort of autocompletion is the first thing I turn off in the Eclipse-variants that come bundled with a lot of the SDKs I use, and I've never enabled it in EMACs. Automatically highlighting where the matching brackets or quotes are is a lovely thing, but I like making my own decisions and stepping past or deleting decisions the editor has made for me is a pain.
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