[racket-dev] [racket] Parens/string quotes automatic behavior

From: Laurent (laurent.orseau at gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 23 11:26:58 EDT 2013

+1 indeed, that way you can follow easily with typing a paren, thus
enclosing it again.

Laurent
Le 23 mai 2013 17:17, "John Clements" <clements at brinckerhoff.org> a écrit :

>
> On May 23, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thursday, May 23, 2013, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote:
>
>> Hello Racket devs,
>>
>> I'm working on tweaking how typing a double quote is handled in strings
>> when DrRacket's auto parens mode is on, per recent post on the users list.
>> If any of you use the mode and can offer feedback on the following, it'd be
>> appreciated: In addition to handling Laurent's initial feature request (see
>> message at bottom), I'm setting it up so that if the following string is in
>> the DrRacket window:
>>   "abcdefghi"
>> and you select the _def_ and press " (double quote), then it places
>> double-quotes around the "def" with additional quotes to ensure that the
>> other two portions of the string are still validly delimited, i.e.
>>   "abc""def""ghi"
>>
>> One question is where to put the cursor following this operation? Should
>> it be right inside the beginning of the lifted string, or in front of its
>> double quotes, i.e.:
>>   "abc""|def""ghi"
>> or "abc"|"def""ghi"
>> ?
>>
>>
> Oh: another possibility: keep the selection where it is (or, perhaps
> better, select the open quote, the def, and the close quote).
>
>
> +1
>
> John
>
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