On May 23, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 23, 2013, Nadeem Abdul Hamid wrote: > Hello Racket devs, > > I'm working on tweaking how typing a double quote is handled in strings when > DrRacket's auto parens mode is on, per recent post on the users list. If any > of you use the mode and can offer feedback on the following, it'd be > appreciated: In addition to handling Laurent's initial feature request (see > message at bottom), I'm setting it up so that if the following string is in > the DrRacket window: > "abcdefghi" > and you select the _def_ and press " (double quote), then it places > double-quotes around the "def" with additional quotes to ensure that the > other two portions of the string are still validly delimited, i.e. > "abc""def""ghi" > > One question is where to put the cursor following this operation? Should it > be right inside the beginning of the lifted string, or in front of its double > quotes, i.e.: > "abc""|def""ghi" > or "abc"|"def""ghi" > ? > > > Oh: another possibility: keep the selection where it is (or, perhaps better, > select the open quote, the def, and the close quote).
+1 John
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