Watts,
I do agree with you that some of the features we've been discussing have
likely been asked for many times, but Bare Bones is reluctant to add them
for the reasons you mention. I remember trying Textmate several years back
(before having tried BBEdit, had only seen others use it) and finding that
if you go too far in the direction of "context-aware" features, 2 things
happen:
1. Performance suffers.
2. There's too much "magic" going on, and people get frustrated (I want
what I typed to appear on the screen and nothing else, there's no reason to
try to read my mind and "help me" by adding things that I don't always
want).
My motivation for bringing this up is mostly because it's a decision that
was seemingly made not for technical/performance related reasons and unless
I'm missing something, it doesn't seem like it would require that much
effort to configure keyboard shortcuts to behave in this way.
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:44:42 PM UTC-4, Watts Martin wrote:
>
> Christopher Finazzo wrote:
>
> > If someone can find out how to sell this idea to regular people, maybe
> > it would catch on outside of our circle of nerds, but I can just as
> > easily see someone look at it and dismiss it without a second thought
> > ("Text expansion is for wimps, just type" etc.)
>
> Text editors like BBEdit (and Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs, etc.) only
> appeal to a circle of nerds in the first place.
>
> Quasi-seriously, I think BBEdit often seems to be of the opinion that
> shortcuts are for wimps in general. 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."
>
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