I'm cool with the highlight, its a nice added touch. But what really drives
me batty is how the page scroll jolts left to right to show me the
highlight on longer lines. Something as disorientating as that could
potentially provoke someone into exploring other options instead of
purchasing a copy of our favourite text editor.
On Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:58:09 PM UTC-7, KAG wrote:
>
> In BBedit 10.5 (3240) on Mac OS10.7.5 there's an annoying new feature
> related to bracket [] and parenthesis () completion that's bugging me. Let
> me say I've always appreciated the helpful feature that momentarily
> highlights the initial ( or [ or { when you TYPE the closing one. But now I
> see that when you're using right-arrow (only) to move across a line of code
> with many [] and () pairs, the cursor will briefly pause upon crossing each
> ) and ] to highlight the opening bracket.
>
> This seems wrong to me. I move quickly and so set my key-repeat speed to *
> fast* so I can quickly move the cursor through long lines of text. You
> get used to the speed so well that you learn precisely when to release your
> finger from the arrow key to stop on the position you want. Now these
> little unexpected hiccups--as the system momentarily flashes the initial
> bracket--throw off my timing and slow me down.
>
> A line of code looks like this
> a = IDLgrPolyline([0.5,1.0], f[5]+[0,0], COLOR=[100,255,100])
>
> So moving from left to right across this generates lots of unpleasant
> pauses. But I don't want to turn off the highlighting that occurs when I
> type the closing characters ) ] }
>
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