Hi,

> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Sven,
>> 
>> If I understand correctly, Stef talks about the case of building tests in 
>> the debugger. There he tries an expression and then wants to capture the 
>> result of the expression as an assertion in the code so he wants to paste 
>> the result directly. It is a different scenario than the one of capturing 
>> results that we store as comments for further reference.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> This might be too much a corner case, but I wonder...
> If the domain object provided a sufficiently distinguishing
> printString, then a shortcut that appended the CTRL-P result....
>    printString = 'aDomainObject(''identifer’')

I cannot quite picture what you mean. Could you elaborate. It sounds intriguing?

> to the selected text might provide an interesting workflow for
> developing tests in the debugger.
> Maybe it could be CTRL-P + CTRL-T (for test) ?

I proposed Cmd+p Cmd+v (from paste).

Cheers,
Doru


> A video demo of such might provide a good example of programming in an
> immersive environment.  What other environment could do this?
> cheers -ben
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "What we can governs what we wish."
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
> 

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