On 02/12/2009, at 15:53 , Charlie Garrison wrote: > On 1/12/09 at 5:25 PM -0700, le...@gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's really no reason for an editor not to automatically add >> "</div>" when I type "<div" or to add "</p>" when I type "<p" > > I must be missing something magical from other programs. Don't > clippings achieve that? [snip] > So clippings give me more choice with fewer keystrokes. BBEdit > does auto-completion for me, but it does it the way I want > rather than making me work the way it wants. I have to agree > with other posters, I've never seen an automatic auto-complete > that does what I want. I spent as much time (maybe more) fixing > its mistakes than I saved.
<aol>me too!</aol> Editors that insert a closing tag on my behalf the moment I type an opening tag, irk me. In most cases the keystroke to skip over the closing tag requires more hand-movement than simply typing the closing tag in the first place. As an example of the <p> tag, simply do this in BBEdit: 1) In preferences -> Editing: General, set "Show text completions" to be "After a delay in typing" 2) Select File->New->HTML Document 3) In the document, start typing p_class 4) press TAB 5) Marvel at how you now have a complete paragraph block with class attribute, and can easily tab between the fields! Then to break up that paragraph into two pieces, simply type "</p>[enter]<p>". How easy was that? Alex -- 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.
