Reconsider "smart characters" preferences

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A modern Autocompletion for your Squeak image

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Reconsider "smart characters" preferences #44

Open LinqLover opened 2 years ago

LinqLover commented 2 years ago

While investigating recent issues with the auto enclose functionality in Squeak 6.0Alpha Trunk^1, @j4yk identified some overlapping preferences of Autocompletion related to the term "smart characters". Without having analyzed their functionality and behavior in-depth, I just wanted to note this down here and propose to revise these preferences to address the following concerns:

Do they add any value in present Squeak that is not available via the default preferences?
Should they maybe be removed, deprecated, or at least disabled by default to avoid confusing behavior when a user changes the different settings and does not aim the desired goal?

HNY :-)

LeonMatthes commented 2 years ago

I believe eCompletion (which Autocompletion is a fork of) added smart characters (adding a closing brace when typing an opening one) before they were available in Squeak by default.

They shouldn't really conflict with the built-in ones as long as both aren't active. Not sure if there's a good point in removing them, as they should still be able to act as a backup to the built-in ones.

LinqLover commented 2 years ago

Alright, so this decision should be addressed in eCompletion instead.

LinqLover commented 9 months ago

Turns out that smartCharacters is still something that is only supported by Autocompletion/eCompletion. We might want to merge this into the Trunk at some day, but before that, deleting this feature from Autocompletion/eCompletion would not make sense. (Btw, eCompletion seems not to be maintained actively, last version on SqueakSource seems to be from 2010.)

LeonMatthes commented 8 months ago

The auto enclose brackets settings is the Squeak default implementation of this I think, together with Enclose selection with brackets.

That should be part of the default image. These settings don't seem to conflict with eCompletion (speak: Autocompletion, as it's a fork of eCompltion) smart characters. I have both enabled and no issues.

LinqLover commented 7 months ago

I think there is at least one conflict indeed: In plain trunk, pressing " while selecting a inside "a" removes the surrounding quotes. With Autocompletion's smart characters, the expression is converted to ""a"" instead ...