On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:28 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:48:31 -0600
> Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> declaring
>> @string next-placeholder-abbrev = ,,
>>
>> with scripting turned off didn't work for me
>
> Could be a temporal sequencing error, i.e. using features before
> they're implemented doesn't always work :-)

Again, idiot, reading as this works OOTB.

>
> I've just pushed with abbreviations on by default, Edward can decide if
> that goes too far...
>
>  - you can't type ,, now, it selects the next <|placeholder|> or just
>    gets replaced with nothing.  I guess failing to find a placeholder
>    should yield ",,", although that would be less convenient for
>    placeholder use
>  - typing html;; gives an html template with a selected placeholder
>  - typing date;; gives {|{x=time.asctime()}|} unless
>    @bool scripting-abbreviations = True
>    or
>    @bool scripting-at-script-nodes = True
>
> To type ",," you have to type ", ," and delete the space.  But maybe
> that's ok, it's a way to let people find abbreviations :-)

Along those lines, a convention of :

@file??=<|The at-file options are:
\: @auto blah
\: @edit blahblah
\: @safe blahblahblah|>

IE: the ?? suffix provides inline help which disappears when you type

Just tried it, and indeed, multiline <| ... |> works

Sorry, that is just TOO cool.

>
> Alternatively, we could have a different default "next placeholder"
> abbreviation.  Really, does it even need to be an abbreviation?  If it
> was a command, you could bind it to any non-inserting key.
>
> Kent - I went with
>   @string abbreviations-next-placeholder = ,,
> for consistency with other settings names.

Makes sense, someone working with csv files
having empty fields would want to change it.

>
> Cheers -Terry
>
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