I do agree with Anatoly. For the first time in weeks, I had the opportunity to play with Spyder (I have a new position at work, with new responsibilities, so I have been disconnected from the project lately, but I'll be back soon I hope). And while I was doing a demo of our internal tools to a colleague, I was really fighting against the editor to write strings (I ended disabling the feature in editor's preferences page): the fact that ending quotes are inserted automatically does not help me as I'm used to close them manually (which has the effect of inserting again a couple of quotes instead...), so instead of closing them manually, I'm pressing the right arrow key (if I intend to write something just after the string) one time or three times (for triple quotes), giving me the impression that there is no real improvement because without this feature, I would hit the quote key exactly as many times. Maybe it's useful for people who use more the mouse than me, but I'm quite convinced that it's more efficient to use less the mouse and more the keyboard for writing source code. Anyway there is certainly a better way to use the feature I guess.
Regarding the fact that this new feature ended in a maintenance release, that is unfortunate. When releasing v2.1.7, I admit that I didn't realize how much the feature was imposed to the end user. The fact is that a maintenance release do not give us the opportunity to test this kind of new feature -- we only have the time to debug, not to test new behaviors. So I think that we should come up with a new release very soon and take a step back on this feature: remove it temporarily or disable it by default. And last but not least, Carlos, do not take it for you. We are a team and we should have seen this coming together. Cheers Pierre Le 13 févr. 2012 à 17:42, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> a écrit : No need to apologize. It is nice to know that it is something being worked on. I was afraid that the work is abandoned and Spyder is left in the current state. Perhaps it is worth to put these changes off the radar into separate branch if further activity is unlikely to happen anytime soon. But for now I'd like to understand what's happening. The way to increase visibility that I see is to add numbered description for each separate autocompletion feature to wiki page (probably with +1 button) to see which of them are useful, and which are conflicting. Perhaps debug panel with checkboxes that turn on these autocompletion features and logging for events of these features can make the process more inspiring. I can't describe the process clearly, but the one user story that is clearly annoying is when you copy/paste some stuff and then put it in quotes. -- anatoly t. 2012/2/9 Carlos Córdoba <[email protected]> > Sorry for that (I was the one who introduced those changes). What are your > main complaints and what I can do to fix them? Notice that a group of users > and me are working to improve the shortcoming of this feature in Issue 872. > Unfortunately I haven't had time to work on it during the last couple of > weeks. > > In principle I could add an option to separate quote completion from brace > completion. That would be ok? > > El 09/02/12 06:11, anatoly techtonik escribió: > > I find the quotes autocompletion pretty annoying in current repository >> version (2.1.7+). I don't remember being so constrained with writing in >> Spyder before. Am I the only one? >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "spyder" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/** >> msg/spyderlib/-/ZmYmb1r6sFEJ<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spyderlib/-/ZmYmb1r6sFEJ> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to spyderlib+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <spyderlib%[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/spyderlib?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en>. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to spyderlib+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <spyderlib%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/spyderlib?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en.
