On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 at 08:46, e2qb2a44f@prolan-power.hu wrote:
For example, in the case of parentheses and fu(8); If one enables the "auto-close opening parenthesis" feature, then:
Instead of typing f u ( 8 ) ; ENTER he/she have to type f u ( 8 ARROW_RIGHT ; ENTER ?
Is this all the gain? (The same number of keystrokes..) (Or I am missing something?)
Yep. :)
Auto close is not to save typing.
The point of auto close parens and other brackety things is so the code remains likely to be reasonably valid whilst typing, so symbol parsers will still work. The parsers are fairly tolerant of invalid code (since they don't parse most of it) but they need brackets to match so they find the right matching one, otherwise they simply go to end of file and stop missing many of your symbols, and so stopping type highlighting working while you type.
Cheers Lex
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