On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Watts Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
Quasi-seriously, I think BBEdit often seems to be of the opinion that
shortcuts are for wimps in general.
BBEdit is a software product and is not sentient. :-) You may be
thinking of Emacs, which has Lisp built into it and is therefore
self aware.
I'm pretty sure that things like auto-pairing and syntax-aware
indenting have been requested for years and rejected, and discussions
about it tend to show two rather black-and-white standpoints on the
subject that boil down to "those are the best things ever" and "those
are crutches that get in the way."
I can't speak to what other people think, but I'm of the opinion
that a great many language-sensitive features are extremely
tricky to get right, and I'd rather do it right than do it
half-assed. Even then, doing it right may involve making
tradeoffs that I would prefer not to make, and therefore I will
opt for not doing it at all rather than doing something half-assed.
R.
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sedate me.
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