The #printString of most objects is not valid Pharo syntax, it makes sense to 
put those into comments, so that the overall syntax of the workspace/playground 
is maintained and syntax highlighting can operate normally.

A result printed as a comment is also easy to select (by double-clicking next 
to the $" on the inside).

All this makes sense for literal programming (assuming that is what you are 
after).

What is the use case for not doing it like that ? Why do you want the comments 
gone ?

> On 07 Jun 2016, at 13:03, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:09 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Le 5/6/16 à 23:00, Tudor Girba a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi Stef,
>>> 
>>> The quotes appear only when you add the result in the playground.
>> 
>> 
>> No need to explain I'm not idiot and I know it.
>>> 
>>> The typical use case for this is to keep track of several results.
>> 
>> No need to explain I'm not idiot and I know it.
>>> 
>>> In this situation you do not want to modify the code to not affect the
>>> highlighting and this is why it gets in a comment.
>> 
>> This is fun because I never ever needed it. But this is probably what
>> everybody else is doing that since this is the default.
>> I just write simple code and tests. Indeed I'm not that smart.
>> 
>> But your tools only embedd your scenario and let the other users forced to
>> adapt.
>> 
>> Well you do not want but I do.
>> I spent my evening removing quotes while writing tests.
>> 
>> What I hate with the GTTools is that you want to teach me how I should work.
>> Sorry but good tools do not do that.
>> Good tools empower the users and not constraint them.
>> 
>> I work a lot faster when I do not have to remove the wonderful comments or
>> when I have to copy and paste.
>> This commenting is breaking the flow of efficient people. May be GT team do
>> not work write tests in the
>> debugger but I do most of the time and I'm forced by the environment to
>> remove quotes all over the places.
>>> 
>>> If you want to copy the content without quotes, you can do:
>>> Cmd+p -> popup
>>> Cmd+c -> selects the current line and copies the text
>>> Esc
>>> Cmd+v
>> 
>> Sorry but I do not want.
>> I just want to print and modify directly.
>> 7 keystrokes vs 2
>>> 
>>> Perhaps we can add another keybinding like Shift+Enter for adding the text
>>> without quotes.
> 
> I just had a play with this, and another option might be <ctrl-enter>,
> since the <ctrl> key is still selection from doing <ctrl-P> so there
> is not much difference in hand movements between <enter> and
> <ctrl-enter>
> 
> cheers -ben
> 
>> 
>> And why not the inverse.
>> By default printing is printing and if you want to do something else then
>> you have a special binding.
> 
> 
> 
>> Now I'm upset with this general attitude (Oh I will teach how you can be a
>> nice user) that I will turn them off
>> or go and hack my own settings. Still I'm amazingly sad about this state of
>> affair.
>> All these story about GT is hurting me because of this attitude: we are so
>> smart and we thought a lot and we will teach you
>> how you should work... and at the end I the end-user has to adapt.
>> Look at the Spotter discussions: you looked for the graal and I was just
>> telling to you that I cannot find
>> simple information such as class refs!
>> 
>> So what saddens me the most is that
>>    -  you pretend to have end-user trying your tools but I have impression
>> that they are not real power users
>>    or this is yourself and it means that you are never exposed to other
>> people.
>>    I can still not use Spotter because the way I put my hand on my
>> keyboard. So should change
>>        - 1 my hands
>>        - 2 my brain
>>        - 3 my keyboard
>>        - 4 do not use the tools?
>>    - funnily enough if I would not have complain aggressively then it looks
>> like we would have the same than before.
>> 
>> Your flow is not mine and I go faster my way but your tools force me to get
>> slow.
>> I do not have the time to produce a video but I would even if it would give
>> a bad press to Pharo.
>> I will do a presentation in the rmod team. Because people do not watch
>> themselves why acting.
>> 
>> Good tools empower the users not constraint them.
>> 
>> GTTools feel often like an overengineer guitar that would have hampered
>> Jimmy Hendrix to do crazy solos.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Doru
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 5, 2016, at 10:20 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to know if there is a setting to remove the "" when printing
>>>> the result of an expression.
>>>> 
>>>> I know that playground has been thought to help me, but today I watched
>>>> myself removing the comments
>>>> 
>>>> code so often that I would like to get a setting because such wrapping of
>>>> results is really boring for me.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm spending my time removing them and I start to wonder why they are any
>>>> useful.
>>>> 
>>>> I would help me to write fast tests for example in the debugger.
>>>> 
>>>> Stef
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> --
>>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>> www.feenk.com
>>> 
>>> "What we can governs what we wish."


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