[Eric] a pair of questions/suggestions

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 27. September 2008, Linos wrote:
> Hello,
> 	do have eric a feature like the "ctrl+shift+f" of eclipse for autoformat?
> should be great, i am refactoring old code limiting the maximum number of
> characters for line and would be really helpful for that, anyway to develop
> new code it is really nice to not have to get any attention on correct
> formatting to later use the feature and get formatted it.

There are languages out there, where the source format is part of the syntax 
(e.g. Python uses indentation). Therfore I think, that feature would not be 
good. However, I might have misunderstood, what this feature is supposed to 
do.

>
> About the typing helps i love the automatic insertion of ending parenthesis
> after opening it, and the space after the comma, but when i am refactoring
> it is really annoying, for example.
>
> if i have this list in a line and try to change it for a tuple [1, 2]  i
> get this on the first opening parenthesis ()[1, 2] and ever have to delete
> it, the same problem with the comma logically, if it is difficult to know
> exactly when to add the closing parenthesis (maybe if you have a char just
> after the new parenthesis?) i think the typing help should have a easy and
> fast "change editing mode" to select refactoring or anything else.

The editor context menu will have an entry to toggle this. That will be part 
of the next eric4 snapshot.

>
> Thanks by this really good editor.
> Regards,
> Miguel Angel.


Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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