[racket] Parens/string quotes automatic behavior

Thanks!


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:

> Ok ok. :-) I will try to work on it in the next day or so if no one else
> gets to it first.
> --- nadeem
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, Laurent wrote:
>
>> (actually double-quote, double-quote, backspace is more efficient, but
>> just typing double-quote would be so much simpler, in particular because
>> when I need this, I need it often, e.g. in slideshow)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:18 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 22, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Laurent wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > The new behavior of automatic parenthesis matching is really nice, but
>>> there is one problem with string quotes.
>>> > For example, if the cursor is in the middle of a string and I type the
>>> string-quote symbol ", it places a quote which cuts the current string and
>>> leaves the right part in a bad syntax.
>>> >
>>> > Most of the time, when I type a quote inside a string, it's because I
>>> want to split the string in two parts.
>>> > To do that, I have to type string-quote, string-quote, delete (to
>>> remove the extra string-quote added by the paren-match behavior), and left
>>> to go back between the two strings, which is mildly annoying.
>>> >
>>> > Would it be possible (unless problematic) to have the default
>>> paren-match behavior for strings that splits the string instead of
>>> inserting a single string-quote, possibly unless the left symbol is a
>>> backslash?
>>>
>>> +1. I've developed a reflex to compensate for this, which is
>>> double-quote double-quote double-quote delete left-arrow… which is a bit
>>> painful.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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