Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Shelley
> Yes, I believe Eclipse does something like this too, maybe not with such a visual sort of indication. I agree that it's very cool functionality but it requires really thorough tracking > of some hidden state as Robby says (history of the users' key and/or mouse interaction) and I don't think I'm

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Nadeem Abdul Hamid
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Nick Shelley wrote: > For what it's worth, Xcode differentiates these cases by inserting a > temporary closing paren that is gray instead of black. You can make it > permanent by arrowing over it, typing it yourself, tabbing over it, or just > moving the cursor ou

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Shelley
For what it's worth, Xcode differentiates these cases by inserting a temporary closing paren that is gray instead of black. You can make it permanent by arrowing over it, typing it yourself, tabbing over it, or just moving the cursor outside the matching parens. When it becomes permanent it is blac

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Robby Findler
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Laurent wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Laurent wrote: >>> >>> If you can, I think it would be a good idea to remove the paren pair if >>> the user deletes the opening paren he just

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Laurent
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Laurent wrote: > >> If you can, I think it would be a good idea to remove the paren pair if >> the user deletes the opening paren he just typed by mistake. Undo should do >> the same (which apparently i

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Nadeem Abdul Hamid
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Laurent wrote: > If you can, I think it would be a good idea to remove the paren pair if > the user deletes the opening paren he just typed by mistake. Undo should do > the same (which apparently it does not currently; missing > 'begin/end-edit-sequence' ?). Yea

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-24 Thread Laurent
If you can, I think it would be a good idea to remove the paren pair if the user deletes the opening paren he just typed by mistake. Undo should do the same (which apparently it does not currently; missing 'begin/end-edit-sequence' ?). Laurent On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-23 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > 1. Do you use the automatic parentheses feature of DrRacket? No. > 3. If your answer to #1 is "No", why not? (Is it because you find its > current behavior awkward in some way?) Yes. Typing close parentheses is much less hassle than

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-22 Thread Neil Toronto
On 11/22/2012 05:20 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: 1. Do you use the automatic parentheses feature of DrRacket? No. I've disabled it and similar features on every code editor I've used. 2a. If yes, does the proposal above resonate well with you? Answering anyway: I would be willing to try it

Re: [racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-22 Thread Ray Racine
I use balanced parents. Agree with current annoyance. Agree with the proposal - simple, effective. On Nov 22, 2012 7:29 PM, "Nadeem Abdul Hamid" wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been discussing with Robby a possible improvement of DrRacket's > "automatic parentheses" behavior and would like to get

[racket-dev] Survey for DrRacket users related to automatic parentheses behavior

2012-11-22 Thread Nadeem Abdul Hamid
Hello all, I've been discussing with Robby a possible improvement of DrRacket's "automatic parentheses" behavior and would like to get a sense of others' general opinion about this. What follows is a description of my proposal and then some concrete questions. ;; The idea is to have DrRacket auto