Tom Boothby wrote: > Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away > with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey > which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and closes it at > your current cursor location: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3646 > > This is *almost* done. For some reason, I didn't see J. Palmieri's > most recent reply until now, but there's a very easy fix. > > The problem with your suggestion is that highlighting something in a > cell is rather difficult since we use textareas and not franken-divs > as you see in the WSYIWYG html editors. We've tried to use a few of > those, but they have way too much CPU / RAM overhead. We played with > the emacs (?) style where the cursor jumps to the paren for a > half-second or so, but this was rife with problems, too. > \
What about changing it for half a second or so to some character, like &? In a sense, think of it as highlighting. So when you cursor over a closing parenthesis, the opening one changes briefly to an & to let you know where it is. This might be a horrible idea---I'm just throwing it out there in the interest of brainstorming. That said, I would *really* like to eventually support the "franken-divs". That would open up lots and lots of possibilities. I know we've tried various content-editable divs for text cells unsuccessfully. Maybe our own very-lightweight solution would be best. How do you see BeSpin changing things? Isn't that pretty heavy-weight? Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
