Auto-closing html tags... hmm, that is one of those features that often drives me crazy. I go into the code, change a tag and have it auto-close the tag immediately afterwards when I already have the closing tag somewhere else. I then have to delete the auto-close... if I even notice it. If not, my code is broke. If it was a feature in BBEdit, I would hope it could be turned off. It isn't something I miss, even though at times it is nice.
And as for css values... well, when I write for example "font-weight" I will put in a number 500, 900 etc, not bold or normal. What one person expects or desires another wouldn't. And so you have to make the hints overly verbose. As such, the poor Bare Bones guys would get people complaining that their hints were wrong or too many or not enough etc. They probably already do with their other hints. Of course, I rarely ever use the hints except by mistake and then I have to delete the whole mess so quite frankly, I don't care, just pointing out that it would be difficult for BB to do "the right thing." Which brings up the basic issue of letting the computer think for me as opposed to using my own brain. I would rather not waste time deleting all the computer's wrong guesses. I like auto completion. I use TextExpander! But I have control over what is expanded. I know how I expect something to be auto completed and can set it if it is common enough for me to want it. Programers don't have a clue what I expect or desire nor should I expect them to. BBEdit is my main and practically only coding tool, having tried and given up on several IDEs as too frustrating since they try to think for me and do a horrible job at it. No matter what I try, I end up coming back to BBEdit (and vim). I don't want BBEdit to think for me. I want it to do exactly what I tell it to even if I am wrong. I trust my rickety old brain more than I do a very stupid computer. Yes, it would be nice to have some intelligent automation but with BBEdit, I can add that through scripts, Automator, even TextExpander and do it in the way I want and not the way a programmer decides (and it would probably be some Emacs thing, yuck! <grin>). Bill I hate all computers, I just hate the Macintosh the least. On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:13 AM, stratboy wrote: > Hi, there are 2 main things I think you could consider to make a > better auto completion: > > - auto-closing html tags. Just like dreamweaver or coda. There are > really no reasons for not closing a tag immediately after writing it. > Also the are really no reasons for letting the coder doing it for > bbedit ;) > > - hints for css values. They really lack. And since they're simply > language syntax, they shouldn't be made by the coder via clippings. I > mean: if I write for example, 'font-weight', I'm expecting to see > hints for 'bold' and 'normal'. Another: if I write 'list-style-type', > I'm expecting to see 'upper-roman', 'disc', 'square', etc.. > > Bye! :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
