>> I don't know if we talk about the same thing, but smart characters
>> behave the same way in my Pharo images as they do in Eclipse and in
>> TextMate.
>
> My apologies - I've just downloaded the latest Eclipse and you are correct
> the smart-characters work in a similar manor. However one important
> usability difference is that when entering a string, my brain won't stop my
> fingers from closing the quote - even though my eyes see "Smart Characters"
> have automatically inserted the closing quote. On Eclipse the editor infers
> I'm typing the closing quote/bracket etc and skips over the already inserted
> "Smart Character", in Pharo it inserts another set of quotes giving me three
> quotes at the end of my string and leaving the insertion point between the
> first the second quote.  I think this issue was shared by our CampSmalltalk
> beginners.

That's fairly easy to adapt, please try the following version from
<http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/unsorted>:

  Name: ECompletion-lr.126
  Author: lr
  Time: 31 July 2010, 4:10:04 pm
  UUID: 777d55d6-95e9-4630-a5ac-b35347286646
  Ancestors: ECompletion-lr.125

  - try to be smarter with smart characters

> <aside>
> I've noticed that the builds I download from http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch
> have a different autocomplete to the ones I download
> from http://pharo-project.org. The autocomplete on the builds from Lukas
> seem a lot faster - I find scrolling down in an autocomplete in the standard
> pharo build often unbearable slow. Another difference is the added useful
> feature of being able to view method detail from the autocomplete with right
> arrow. Is there a way to load the Lukas build autocomplete on-top of a
> standard Pharo image? Why the difference?
>  </aside>

oCompletion is an "extended" version of eCompletion that I use in my images.

You and I are not the only ones that prefer eCompletion, I know of
quite a few other people that think so too.

Lukas

-- 
Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch

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